Jeff liu wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > Thanks for taking a look at this feature, and sorry for my late response! > > Hi Jim, > > Recently, I have discussed with a colleague(Bo Liu CC-ed) who is focus > on Btrfs development, and we > decided to teach Btrfs aware of reflinked extents per file for du(1) purpose. > :)
Hi Jeff, When do you expect that support to be in upstream kernels? ... >> If you and/or Jeff are motivated enough, a good first step would be to >> post a rebased patch to bug-coreutils, preferably after you've switched >> out that rbtree.[ch] for gnulib's code. I hesitate even to suggest >> that you rebase, because we might end up deciding it's not yet worth >> the cost, but let's hear what others have to say. Maybe enough people >> use du and are bothered because the space used by their reflinked files >> is over-reported. > > We can find time to rebase it according to your suggestions if you like. Depending on when btrfs support is expected, you may want to wait. I would want to be able to test against both file system types.
