Re: XFS reflinks

Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29T13:00:47Z

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.