[Ocfs2-devel] error message in log: ocfs2_reflink_ioctl:4431 ERROR: status = -17

[Joseph Qi]

On 2/26/21 4:48 AM, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what we do is to overwrite the reflink from the day before with the current one, with the same name.
> For this we use reflink -f. Could that be the culprit ?
> Should we delete the old one before ? Or maybe use unique names for each reflink ?

I think you are doing so is to take a file snapshot. So a unique name
for each snapshot looks more reasonable, since you can find the most
suitable backup you want.
Generally filename + timestamp is commonly used for this situation.

Thanks,
Joseph