On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:23:38PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > Un-sharing an fs full of reflinked files requires us to build code to > > iterate every bmbt of every file (or to cross-reference every refcountbt > > record against the rmapbt to find the sharers) and then relocate the > > data, which is quite a bit more complex... and unnecessary since we can > > rebuild all the broken refcount metadata anyway. > > You are right, of course, from technical POV, but psychologically, if people > know they have a safe way back to what they know and trust, it is easier > for them make the leap... /me shakes his head. If people don't feel safe running experimental code that might go wrong, they're going to be absolutely thrilled to hear that when it does go wrong, there's even more experimental code that will try to fix it up again. No. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
