Re: [RFD] XFS: Subvolumes and snapshots....
From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Date: 2018-01-28 01:58:54
From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Date: 2018-01-28 01:58:54
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 05:05:31PM +0000, Martin Raiber wrote:
On 25.01.2018 06:51 Dave Chinner wrote:quoted
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. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com