On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 08:44:35AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > When we're doing writes, it'll check the preallocated extents for extra > > refs and force COW if any exist. So writes into a preallocated region > > can enospc. > > This really seems like an btrfs interpretation/implementation > issue, not a problem for reflink in general. > Right, now matter how we do it there are tradeoffs, and this one seemed the least surprising to me. I don't think it's a big problem at all. Automatically replacing preallocated extents with holes during clone seems like a better compromise though (at least for btrfs anyway). -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
