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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chris Cottam <chris.cottam@bytemark.co.uk>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS reflinks
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 06:00:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829130046.GA28896@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04eacb90-aac9-7c47-f074-fa91eb253822@bytemark.co.uk>

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Chris Cottam wrote:
> I've got a project where being able to take COW copies of a VMs disc
> would be really useful (disc snapshots to be then archived off elsewhere)
> 
> How stable is the the experimental reflinks feature and do you have any
> idea when it might be declared stable?

I've got a customer that heavily uses (and tests) reflinks.  They
initially found a few issues, but these days the QA teams finds
bugs in decade old XFS code but not related to reflinks..

You're mileage my vary, but I think we should be able to drop the
experimental tag now.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29 11:23 XFS reflinks Chris Cottam
2017-08-29 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-08-29 13:39   ` Chris Cottam
2017-08-29 16:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 16:03   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-29 16:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 22:03       ` Dave Chinner
2017-08-30  7:03         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-31 10:33         ` Chris Cottam
2017-08-31 13:09           ` Christoph Hellwig

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