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Re: Pity userspace on where this is done on a simple minded filesystem

Re: Pity userspace on where this is done on a simple minded filesystem

Posted May 6, 2009 0:57 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Re: Pity userspace on where this is done on a simple minded filesystem by adj
Parent article: The two sides of reflink()

But appending (to logs, for example) is such a common special case that it would be likely to be supported at an early stage, so that you have an efficient representation when you take a snapshot of a filesystem, and then you let it go on, appending lots of stuff to your log files, blocks belonging to a common prefix can be shared.


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