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The two sides of reflink()

The two sides of reflink()

Posted May 6, 2009 0:05 UTC (Wed) by adj (subscriber, #7401)
In reply to: The two sides of reflink() by martinfick
Parent article: The two sides of reflink()

Yeah, I did miss that. I'm going to have to imagine that a reflink-supporting ext3 filesystem would have a new feature bit set in the superblock. And hopefully would not be mountable on a non-reflink-supporting kernel. Two inodes sharing the same data blocks isn't something that any traditional UNIXy filesystem is going to understand. MS-DOS type filesystems surely don't support it either (cross linked files should sound familiar to anyone who used a DOS system in the 1980s or early 1990s.)


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