On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On 06/20/2012 12:35 PM, Alexander Block wrote:
>> The patch also does proper vfs mount checks, so cross mount
>> point reflinks are not possible with this patch. It only allows cross
>> reflinks between two subvolumes which are in the same mount point.
>
> Thanks for working on that. What happens if two subvolumes of the same
> filesystem are mounted on two different places ?
>
> I usually do:
> mount -o subvol=__active /dev/sdX /
> mount -o subvol=. /dev/sdX /var/btrfs
>
> So two different subvolumes of the same filesystem (the one on /dev/sdX)
> are mounted on two different places.
>
> Is it possible to do
> cp --reflink /tmp/foo /var/btrfs/tmp/foo2
This will fail with -EXDEV. The patch explicitly forbids reflinks crossing vfs
mount boundaries.
>
> Thanks
> G.Baroncelli
>
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