Re: [PATCH RFC] storage: perform btrfs clone if possible

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On 11/24/2014 12:09 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 02:11:47PM +0800, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
>> We already had nocow flags in virStorageSource.
>> But when creating RAW file, we don't take advantage
>> of clone of btrfs.
>> This file introduce btrfs_clone_file function,
>> and try to use it when !nocow.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure we want to do this, but I have nothing against that
> either.  So I'll just review the code without any other comments.
> 

> 
> As I said, I'm not commenting on whether we want this in or not, so
> for that you should wait for someone's response.  I bet there's a
> (good) reason behind libvirt not using some lvm/zfs/btrfs features,
> but I am too lazy to search for it since it'd be inaccurate anyway.

I think it makes sense to expose this functionality; although I suspect
it is better if we do so by having the user pass an explicit new flag
value to existing API instead of doing it automatically.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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