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From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
To: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: check for reflink capability and for shared data
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:30:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130826093021.GB17457@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201308241809.58701.thomas@koch.ro>

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 06:09:58PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can I do the following in a shell script:
> 
> - check whether my file system supports cp --reflink?
> - check whether two files share the same data on disk, i.e. one has been 
> created by cp --reflink of the other?

Someone has proposed to teach 'du(1)' to show this, ie. 'du --shared'[1].

It's written for ocfs2 originally, besides btrfs, ocfs2 also can share
data between two files.

[1]: https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2010-September/007287.html

-liubo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-26  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-24 16:09 check for reflink capability and for shared data Thomas Koch
2013-08-24 16:20 ` Hugo Mills
2013-08-26  6:42   ` Jan Schmidt
2013-08-26  9:30 ` Liu Bo [this message]
2013-08-27  1:37 ` Marios Titas

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