Re: Supporting reflinked/cow files in coreutils

[jeff.liu]

Hi Philipp,

Pretty sorry for the late reply! I have not checked this email somehow. :(

The latest post about OCFS2 reflink support for cp(1) can be found at the 
following link:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01247.html

Pádraig,

Would you please take a look at it at your convenient?


Thanks,
-Jeff
Philipp Thomas wrote:
> Pádraig, Jeff,
> 
> [forget Jeff in the initial reply, thus the full quote]
> 
> * Philipp Thomas (address@hidden) [20110616 15:32]:
> 
>> I finally got the time to look into copy.c and found the code you're
>> speaking of. Looking at the ocfs2 code it seems to me that OCFS2_IOC_REFLINK
>> is what is needed for but that is where my knowledge ends. Jeff could you
>> fill in the pieces needed to make clone_file also work on ocfs2?
> 
> Philipp