linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

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Message-ID: <20090915043523.GF4507@mail.oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:35:23 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:05:59AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> COW filesystems like btrfs may also be able to do interesting things
> with copyfile() btw by just sharing all data blocks COW.
> 
> That would make copyfile() useful for me, much more so than the network
> filesystem side...

	btrfs reflink is definitely in the cards.

Joel

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