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

[Herbert Van Den Bergh]

> On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Lentes, Bernd <bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
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> ----- On Jan 15, 2021, at 6:47 PM, herbert van den bergh HERBERT.VAN.DEN.BERGH at ORACLE.COM wrote:
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>> 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 ?

Just with rm.

Thanks,
Herbert.

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