Just after replying I noticed you talked about cp= and noticed I sent
to the nilfs mailing list and not btrfs !  So cp --reflink does not
work on NILFS but would be a nice feature :)

Envoyé de mon appareil mobile.

Jérôme Poulin
Solutions G.A.

On 2011-02-27, at 08:20, dexen deVries <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> The following is more of a feature request than problem report, actually.
>
> I've mounted an older snapshot and tried to restore (add it to the current
> filesystem state) by creating a hardlink.
> Roughly like:
> mount /dev/sdb3 ~/current
> mount.nilfs2 /dev/sdb3 ~/old -o ro,cp=1234
> cd ~/current
> ln ~/old/file.bin ./restored-file.bin
>
> The `ln' returned `Invalid cross-device link'.
>
> I expected such hardlink to have semantics of re-using all the data blocks &
> metadata of file.bin from snapshot as restored-file.bin, so no duplication of
> data blocks happens.
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> dexen deVries
>
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