Re: Does XFS support sharing blocks?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bogdan wrote:
>   Hello.
> 
>   I have a question: does the XFS filesystem support sharing blocks 
> between objects (files, symlinks, fifos, ...). I mean, can 2 distinct 
> objects have their data inside one physical block? If not, what is the 
> "offset" field for in xfs_db output:
> 
> xfs_db> inode 19331
> xfs_db> bmap -d
> data offset 0 startblock 1212 (0/1212) count 1 flag 0

it's simply the block number in the file.

You have a 1 block file, it's first (and only) block is at physical
block 1212 (block 1212 in AG 0)

-Eric