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On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:39:02AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Another question: do we want that to work across mounpoint boundary?
> It's probably OK in this case, but...

I don't think so.  Allowing any link-like semantics over mount point
boundaries will just cause problems.

Joel, can you also submit a reflink man page to Michael?