Messages in this thread | | | From | Neal Gompa <> | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:24:00 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] fsdax,xfs: Add reflink&dedupe support for fsdax |
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 8:09 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:26:43PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:21:59AM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > > > DAX on btrfs has been attempted[1]. Of course, we could not > > > > But why? A completeness fetish? I don't understand why you decided > > to do this work. > > * xfs can shapshot only single files, btrfs entire subvolumes > * btrfs-send|receive > * enumeration of changed parts of a file >
XFS cannot do snapshots since it lacks metadata COW. XFS reflinking is primarily for space efficiency.
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