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

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong at oracle.com
Mon Nov 9 12:57:24 CST 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:33:12AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 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.

Oh. Heh.  I forgot that Dave merged the v1 patch into for-next after I'd posted
the v2 patch.  So ... I thought I'd convinced him to revert the v1 patch and
stuff in the v2 patch, but that hasn't shown up on kernel.org.

-ETOOMANYPATCHES :(

--D

> 
> <nod>
> 
> --D
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