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The two sides of reflink()

The two sides of reflink()

Posted May 11, 2009 15:38 UTC (Mon) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: The two sides of reflink() by nix
Parent article: The two sides of reflink()

There is no practical way for a filesystem to implement "reflinks" such that
the reflink shares the same inode. The ownership, permissions, and file data
of both the original file and the new file all have to be modifiable
independently. To make any sense, they would also need separate inode
numbers.


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