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SubjectRe: VFS support for fast copy on deduplicating FSes
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 04:19:17AM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> unresearched question/suggestion:
>
> Is there general support for a "fast copy" ioctl in the VFS layer,
> which would be hooked by file systems that support COW or other forms
> of deduplication and can provide copy semantics by manipulating
> metadata only?
>

Yes, see reflink(2) syscall (http://lwn.net/Articles/331576/).

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