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COW links?

Posted May 6, 2009 12:25 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: COW links? by arnd
Parent article: The two sides of reflink()

I meant to work that in, but didn't... cowlinks were a similar idea, but a different implementation. They were really links, while "reflinks" create a new inode. So there's quite a bit of difference in how they work.

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