Jamie, Joel Becker wrote:
"Shares the data extents of the source file".
so with that clarification, do you now agree with this > 1) is only for filesystems with COW operation, > if the fs does not support COW it returns ENOSYS. being a requirement so the user can trust that calling reflink() uses minimal space (inode/extentmap) and only a change to the file will trigger a data copy. jim -- 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