Hi! What do I need to use reflinks on OCFS2 1.6? coreutils 8.4's cp --reflink=always doesn't seem too work. I found http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog and http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/reflink-tools/ Both contain a patched and outdated coreutils package. Are there any plans to merge it upstream? -- Thanks, //richard
First we have to get the new syscall added to the kernel. The first attempt failed because people overloaded the call with extraneous stuff. Recently there is another attempt to go back to the original proposal. Hopefully, next kernel release. The reflink utility should work. So what it is based on an older coreutils. It is derived from the hard link (ln) utility. On 12/17/2011 4:15 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:> Hi! > > What do I need to use reflinks on OCFS2 1.6? > > coreutils 8.4's cp --reflink=always doesn't seem too work. > > I found > http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog > and > http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/reflink-tools/ > > Both contain a patched and outdated coreutils package. > > Are there any plans to merge it upstream? >
Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:> First we have to get the new syscall added to the kernel. > The first attempt failed because people overloaded the call with > extraneous stuff. Recently there is another attempt to go back > to the original proposal. Hopefully, next kernel release.Good to know!> The reflink utility should work. So what it is based on an older > coreutils. It is derived from the hard link (ln) utility.So, building it from http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog via reflink.spec is the way to go? -- Thanks, //richard
On 12/17/2011 12:05 PM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:>> The reflink utility should work. So what it is based on an older >> coreutils. It is derived from the hard link (ln) utility. > So, building it from http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/reflink.git;a=shortlog > via reflink.spec is the way to go? >For now, yes.