[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 vs Oracle ASM CFS

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:21:55AM -0500, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> 3) ACFS shapshots -- or are those a feature of DVM?  Seems like a great
> feature - isn't xfs the only other currently released filesystem to
> support this?  Any plans to add snapshots to the OCFS2 roadmap?

	ocfs2 will be able to snap inodes via the reflink(2) system call
with the addition of the refcount tree feature.  The work is done and
is scheduled to go into 2.6.32.

Joel

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