From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:42425 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbcKCQKW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2016 12:10:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:10:20 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC] allow enabling reflinks at runtime Message-ID: <20161103161020.GA18032@lst.de> References: <1464877150-20457-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20161026204940.GA32036@birch.djwong.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161026204940.GA32036@birch.djwong.org> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs , Dave Chinner On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:49:40PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:19:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I've had some vocal user requests to allow enabling reflinks at run time, > > which happens to be a mostly trivial feature. The only caveat is that we > > need a large enough log size to support the reflink requirements, but for > > typical large file systems that's not an issue. > > Just out of curiosity, are we still interested in this feature? > A few people were asking on the irc channel today. I still think it is useful, but it's dropped to the bottom of my priority list as my customer found another way to deploy the feature. So don't expect a new version from me anytime soon.