[Ocfs2-users] reflink status

2011-12-17 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
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and http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/reflink-tools/ Both contain a patched and outdated coreutils package.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

Re: [Ocfs2-users] reflink status

2011-12-17 Thread Sunil Mushran
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

Re: [Ocfs2-users] reflink status

2011-12-17 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sunil Mushran sunil.mush...@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

Re: [Ocfs2-users] reflink status

2011-12-17 Thread Sunil Mushran
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?

Re: [Ocfs2-users] reflink status

2011-12-17 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Sunil Mushran sunil.mush...@oracle.com wrote: 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