Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2014-02-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:40:20AM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >The BTRFS_IOC_CLONE ioctl operates on file level and can be used to > >clone files anywhere in a btrfs filesystem. > > Hmm, you can also do > > cp --reflog -r data92 data-tmp I think you mean --reflink here. > pg_upgrade --l

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-11-15 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 05.10.2013 16:57, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: 05.10.2013 16:38, Bruce Momjian kirjoitti: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:42:46PM +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: Thanks for the offers, but it looks like ZFS doesn't actually implement a similar file level clone operation. See https://github.com/zfsonli

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-05 Thread Oskari Saarenmaa
05.10.2013 16:38, Bruce Momjian kirjoitti: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:42:46PM +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: >> Thanks for the offers, but it looks like ZFS doesn't actually implement >> a similar file level clone operation. See >> https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405 for discussion on a

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:42:46PM +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: > Thanks for the offers, but it looks like ZFS doesn't actually implement > a similar file level clone operation. See > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405 for discussion on a feature > request for it. > > ZFS does support

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-04 Thread Oskari Saarenmaa
03.10.2013 01:35, Larry Rosenman kirjoitti: > On 2013-10-02 17:32, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> No fundamental reason; I'm hoping ZFS will be supported in addition to >>> btrfs, but I don't have any systems with ZFS filesystems at the moment >>> so I haven't been able to test it or find out the mechanism

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2013-10-02 17:32, Josh Berkus wrote: No fundamental reason; I'm hoping ZFS will be supported in addition to btrfs, but I don't have any systems with ZFS filesystems at the moment so I haven't been able to test it or find out the mechanisms ZFS uses for cloning. On btrfs cloning is implemented

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Josh Berkus
> No fundamental reason; I'm hoping ZFS will be supported in addition to > btrfs, but I don't have any systems with ZFS filesystems at the moment > so I haven't been able to test it or find out the mechanisms ZFS uses > for cloning. On btrfs cloning is implemented with a custom > btrfs-specific i

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 05:23:31PM +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: > On 02/10/13 17:18, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >On 10/01/2013 06:31 PM, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: > >>Add file cloning as an alternative data transfer method to pg_upgrade. > >>Currently only btrfs is supported, but copy-on-write clo

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 10/01/2013 06:31 PM, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: Add file cloning as an alternative data transfer method to pg_upgrade. Currently only btrfs is supported, but copy-on-write cloning is also available on at least ZFS. Cloning must be requested explicitly and if it isn't supported by the operating

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Oskari Saarenmaa
On 02/10/13 17:18, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 10/01/2013 06:31 PM, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: Add file cloning as an alternative data transfer method to pg_upgrade. Currently only btrfs is supported, but copy-on-write cloning is also available on at least ZFS. Cloning must be requested explicitly a

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pg_upgrade: support for btrfs copy-on-write clones

2013-10-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
Oskari Saarenmaa wrote: > Add file cloning as an alternative data transfer method to pg_upgrade. > Currently only btrfs is supported, but copy-on-write cloning is also > available on at least ZFS.  Cloning must be requested explicitly and if > it isn't supported by the operating system or filesy