On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:08:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> > So what I'm hearing is that I should drop the reflink and dedup flags and >> > change this system call only perform a full copy (with preserving of >> > sparseness), correct? I can make those changes, but only if everybody is >> > in agreement that it's the best way forward. >> >> I personally rather like the reflink option. That thing is quite useful. > > reflink is very useful, probably more useful than the copy actually. But it > is different from a copy. It should be a separate interface.
One might argue that reflink is like copy + immediate dedupe. Also, I can imagine there being network protocols over which you can't really tell the difference between reflink and server-to-server copy. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
