Chris, I recommend reading the previously linked thread. The supplied (and reportedly working) patch was nacked because it violates some principles or another of file systems. (although from my limited understanding it only does it in the same way that btrfs snapshots do in the first place)
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:12:13 PM Roman Kapusta wrote: > > > I'm using btrfs for about two years and this is the key feature I'm > > missing all the time. Why is it not part of mainline btrfs already? > > Because nobody has written the code to do it yet? > > I'm sure the developers would welcome patches for this with open arms! > > cheers, > Chris > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC > > This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. > For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP -- Gareth Pye Level 2 Judge, Melbourne, Australia Australian MTG Forum: mtgau.com gar...@cerberos.id.au - www.rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com "Dear God, I would like to file a bug report" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
