[Ocfs2-users] reflink status

richard -rw- weinberger richard.weinberger at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 12:05:23 PST 2011


Hi,

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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.

Good to know!

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

So, building it from http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog
via reflink.spec is the way to go?

-- 
Thanks,
//richard



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