Re: Supporting reflinked/cow files in coreutils

[jeff.liu]

Hi Philipp,

Philipp Thomas wrote:
> * Jeff liu (address@hidden) [20110418 15:54]:
> 
>> I have not submit the patch set to Coreutils since I guess it is hard to
>> accept by upstream as reflink and FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED flag are not spread
>> over the general filesystems.
> 
> Could you please submit the patch set? As both ocfs2 and btrfs support
> reflinks and FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED it would be IMO nice to have that support
> in coreutils.

Sure :-P.
With this patch set, du(1) could show the exactly disk footprint for such kind 
of filesystems.
But I have to put off the submit a few days since currently I have to work out 
another patch first.
Jim, do you like this feature?

Thanks,
-Jeff

> 
> Philipp