Re: [RFD] XFS: Subvolumes and snapshots....

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On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 05:05:31PM +0000, Martin Raiber wrote:
> On 25.01.2018 06:51 Dave Chinner wrote:
> > The video from my talk at LCA 2018 yesterday about the XFS subvolume and
> > snapshot support I'm working on has been uploaded and can be found
> > here:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG8FUvSGROw
> >
> > I don't have the code in a reviewable form yet - there's still quite
> > a bit of work before I get to that point, but this is a good
> > introduction to how all the pieces will fit together....
> 
> Great talk!
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's hard to add, but cross-subvolume reflinks would be
> something useful for my use case.

That's not going to happen. reflinks across subvolumes (i.e. across
independent filesystems) will return -EXDEV. If you want subvolumes
to share data blocks of independent ancestry, then you can run
deduplication operations on the image files.

Cheers,

Dave.
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