Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:15:32 +0200 | From | Goffredo Baroncelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow cross subvolume reflinks (2nd attempt) |
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On 06/20/2012 10:05 PM, Alexander Block wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it> wrote: >> >> Yes please, could someone explain the reason behind this decision ? May >> be there are valid reasons, I am asking only to know which ones ? >> > The reason is that at the moment no user visible operations span mount > boundaries > and there were discussion on whether this should be allowed for the > clone ioctl or > not.
Yes, I understood the same. But nobody was able to explain why .
For the moment, I would already be happy to have cross subvolume reflinks > which do not span mount points, this would already be much more as we have at > the moment.
This is reasonable.
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