Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: try to unshare extents before granting pnfs leases
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2018-01-18 14:15:14
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2018-01-18 14:15:14
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:42:39PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
From: Darrick J. Wong <redacted> Try to unshare an extent before granting a lease to pnfs; if this isn't possible, then bail out.
I don't like this at all. The block and scsi layout protocols actually have support for reflinks, someone just needs to implement it.. But until that is implemented I'd rather fail getting a layout than starting a potentially very long running unshare.