On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Zach Brown <z...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Also, I don't get the first option above at all. The argument is that >> it's safer to have more copies? How much safety does another copy on >> the same disk really give you? Do systems that do dedup provide >> interfaces to turn it off per-file?
I don't see the safety argument very compelling either. There are real semantic differences, however: ENOSPC on a write to a (apparentlíy) already allocated block. That could be a bit unexpected. Do we need a fallocate extension to deal with shared blocks? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
