On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:05 PM Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 23.12.2020 06:48, Chris Murphy пишет:
> > Hi,
> >
> > kernel is 5.10.2
> >
> > cp --reflink hi hi2
> >
> > This results in two EXTENT_DATA items with different offsets,
> > therefore I think the data is duplicated in the leaf? Correct? Is it
> > expected?
> >
>
> I'd say yes. Inline data is contained in EXTEND_DATA item and
> EXTENT_DATA item cannot be shared by two different inodes (it is keyed
> by inode number).
>
> Even when cloning regular extent you will have two independent
> EXTENT_DATA items pointing to the same physical extent.


Thanks.

I saw this commit a long time ago and sorta just figured it meant
maybe inline extents would be cloned within a given leaf.

05a5a7621ce6
Btrfs: implement full reflink support for inline extents

But I only just now read the commit message, and it reads like cloning
now will be handled without error. It's not saying that it results in
shared inline data extents.

-- 
Chris Murphy

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