Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

From: Joel Becker
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 00:38:30 EST


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:05:59AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> COW filesystems like btrfs may also be able to do interesting things
> with copyfile() btw by just sharing all data blocks COW.
>
> That would make copyfile() useful for me, much more so than the network
> filesystem side...

btrfs reflink is definitely in the cards.

Joel

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