On Tue, 20 May 2014 20:59:28 Marc MERLIN wrote: > just wrote a blog post about the 3 way of doing historical snapshots: > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-05-20_Historical-Snapshots-Wit > h-Btrfs.html > I love reflink, but that forces me to use btrfs send as the only way to > copy a filesystem without losing the reflink relationship, and I have no > good way from user space to see the blocks shared to see how many are > shared or whether some just got duped in a copy. > As a result, for now I still use hardlinks.
It would be nice if someone patched rsync to look for files with identical contents and use reflink or hardlinks (optionally at user request) instead of making multiple copies of the same data. Also it would be nice if rsync would look for matching blocks in different files to save transfer. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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
