Re: Copy on write hard links?

[JÃrn Engel]

On Wed, 25 September 2013 16:28:53 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> 
> I wonder how hard it would be to implement this on vfs layer?

As an ugly hack: a few weeks maybe.  Did it back in 2005 or so.  If
you have higher standards, you will need support from the underlying
filesystem.  Especially in order to make copying a large file on slow
storage anything but a nightmare.

JÃrn

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