[Ocfs2-users] is it possible to have several reflinks of one file ?

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Jan 15, 2021, at 6:47 PM, herbert van den bergh HERBERT.VAN.DEN.BERGH at ORACLE.COM wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2021, at 6:00 AM, Lentes, Bernd <bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> is it possible to have several reflinks of one file ?
>> I'd like to create each day one reflink, for one week, thens start to overwrite
>> them from day to day, so that i never have more than 7 reflinks of the file.
>> Is that possible ?
> 
> Absolutely. Not sure what you mean by overwriting them. If you’re doing this to
> get a daily snapshot of your data and only keep the last 7, then you can simply
> delete the earliest one when you create the next one. The reflinked blocks on
> disk will remain because they’re still referenced by the other 7 reflinks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Herbert.
> 

Hi Herbert,

how do i delete the old ones ? Just with rm or do i have to use unlink ?

Bernd
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