You would need to apply this patch to your kernel:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg09096.html

Is there any chance this patch gets in linux-next ?
I use this feature all the time and it never broke on me.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dave <d...@thekilempire.com> wrote:
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> So I've got a daily snapshot of my /home subvolume.  Due to a fat finger, I've
> damaged a rather large file so I'd like to pull if from one of these snapshot
> backups.  I don't want to simply copy the file since it's many gigs and cp
> - --reflink=always doesn't work (produces the error Invalid cross-device 
> link).
> Is there a way to recover that file and benefit from COW?
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> Entropy isn't what it used to be.
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