Joel Becker wrote:
> "Shares the data extents of the source file". I should hope
> that chmod doesn't require copying out all the data.
Oh... I was under the impression that it would, because the
man-page-of-sorts says attributes must be the same and the following
question:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > reflink() sounds useful already, but is there a compelling reason why
> > both files must have the same attributes, and changing attributes will
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> > break the COW?
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>
> Yeah, because without it you can't use it for snapshotting.
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If that's not true, then I change my tune substantially and like
reflink() semantics a lot more. :-)
-- Jamie
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