Re: [PATCH v2 03/51] xfs_io: support reflink and dedupe of file ranges

Darrick J. Wong
2015-11-09T18:57:53Z

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:33:12AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:54:38PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Any reason why the dedup command is called 'dedupe'? Is this a revenge
> > for the missing 'e' in the creat syscall? :)
>
> Heh, sure! :)
>
> I stuck on the 'e' because the btrfs tool is 'duperemove', not 'dupremove'.
>
> (I have no preference either way.)
>
> > Either way it would be good to get this support in ASAP so we can have
> > the command ready for xfstests and we can merge the test. They are
> > useful for btrfs and NFS already, so I'd love to fast track them.

Oh. Heh. I forgot that Dave merged the v1 patch into for-next after I'd posted
the v2 patch. So ... I thought I'd convinced him to revert the v1 patch and
stuff in the v2 patch, but that hasn't shown up on kernel.org.

-ETOOMANYPATCHES :(

--D

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> <nod>
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