On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:08:59PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > As my first impression when I read the title of the patch, an English reflink > I would imagine is something more to the left of above graph, between hard-link > and soft-link, something like: link to an invisible dir-entry that is gone once > all soft-links to it are gone. > > So form my point of view. Call it something different like Copy-On-Write or > COW. > > I do understand that there is something very fundamental in my misunderstanding, > but it was not explained below, in fact the below terminology confused me even > more. Please explain? It's simply a lazy copy, with interface for creating it similar to link(2). That's all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
