From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Larry D'Anna" <larry@elder-gods.org>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Yan Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:02:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301572893-sup-3464@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110331063636.GA5297@infradead.org>
Excerpts from Christoph Hellwig's message of 2011-03-31 02:36:36 -0400:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:00:11AM -0400, Larry D'Anna wrote:
> > This is a simple patch to allow reflinks to be made crossing subvolume
> > boundaries.
>
> NAK. subvolumes will have to become vfsmounts sooner or later, and we
> really must not support any operations spanning mountpoints.
>
Sorry, I disagree here. reflinks were always intended to be able to
span subvolumes. There's no conflict at all because they span different
inodes.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 4:00 [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 4:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: remove unused argument 'root' from btrfs_release_path Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 4:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 6:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-31 6:44 ` Arne Jansen
2011-03-31 12:02 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-04-01 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-01 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-02 1:59 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-12-22 12:24 ` Chris Samuel
2012-01-06 12:04 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2012-01-06 17:57 ` David Sterba
2012-01-09 6:58 ` Marios Titas
2012-01-09 13:31 ` Jérôme Poulin
2012-01-19 16:52 ` Jérôme Poulin
2011-04-02 15:51 ` Ken Drummond
2011-04-02 16:56 ` Larry D'Anna
2011-04-02 20:01 ` Jérôme Poulin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-31 11:12 Tomasz Chmielewski
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