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

Dave Chinner
2015-11-09T21:36:23Z

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 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 :(

Need to push it out - I have an updated branch here, just been
delayed in testing and pushing out progs-4.3-rc2.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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