João Eduardo Luís wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Can anyone think of a simple way to copy a set of pages from a given file 
> (which may or may not be scattered throughout multiple extents) from a 
> snapshot to correct pages within another file on another snapshot?
> 
> This might sound silly, but the whole purpose is to create some sort of 
> reconciliation method between divergent snapshots taken from the same 
> original subvolume.
> 

How about the file clone ioctl? It won't copy data, but it makes the dest file 
points
to the same extents of the source file.
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