Re: Reflink (cow) copy of busy files

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Il 25-02-2018 03:47 Dave Chinner ha scritto:

Yes, you have to freeze the filesystem to get a crash-consistent
snapshot of the filesystem.


You will end up with garbage.

Ok. Bonus question: am I right thinking this is due to the CoW copy not being atomic (ie: the various extents being in different state until the copy is finished)?

Thanks.

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