[Ocfs2-users] reflink status

[Sunil Mushran]

First we have to get the new syscall added to the kernel.
The first attempt failed because people overloaded the call with
extraneous stuff. Recently there is another attempt to go back
to the original proposal. Hopefully, next kernel release.

The reflink utility should work. So what it is based on an older
coreutils. It is derived from the hard link (ln) utility.

On 12/17/2011 4:15 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What do I need to use reflinks on OCFS2 1.6?
>
> coreutils 8.4's cp --reflink=always doesn't seem too work.
>
> I found
> http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog
> and
> http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/reflink-tools/
>
> Both contain a patched and outdated coreutils package.
>
> Are there any plans to merge it upstream?
>