Uh, 1COW?... what happens when someone does this...

2014-10-22 Thread Robert White
So I've been considering some NOCOW files (for VM disk images), but some questions arose. IS there a 1COW (copy on write only once) flag or are the following operations dangerous or undefined? (1) The page https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ (section Can copy-on-write be turned off

Re: Uh, 1COW?... what happens when someone does this...

2014-10-22 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:41:10PM -0700, Robert White wrote: So I've been considering some NOCOW files (for VM disk images), but some questions arose. IS there a 1COW (copy on write only once) flag or are the following operations dangerous or undefined? (1) The page

Re: Uh, 1COW?... what happens when someone does this...

2014-10-22 Thread Duncan
Robert White posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:41:10 -0700 as excerpted: So I've been considering some NOCOW files (for VM disk images), but some questions arose. IS there a 1COW (copy on write only once) flag or are the following operations dangerous or undefined? (1) The page