Re: XFS reflinks

Chris Cottam
2017-08-29T13:40:01Z

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Could I enquire about the severity of a few issues?

Regard

Chris

On 29/08/17 14:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
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