[PATCH v2 03/51] xfs_io: support reflink and dedupe of file ranges

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong at oracle.com
Mon Nov 9 12:33:12 CST 2015


On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:54:38PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any reason why the dedup command is called 'dedupe'?  Is this a revenge
> for the missing 'e' in the creat syscall? :)

Heh, sure! :)

I stuck on the 'e' because the btrfs tool is 'duperemove', not 'dupremove'.

(I have no preference either way.)

> Either way it would be good to get this support in ASAP so we can have
> the command ready for xfstests and we can merge the test.  They are
> useful for btrfs and NFS already, so I'd love to fast track them.

<nod>

--D



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