Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932373Ab2FTUFs (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:05:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:32931 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758013Ab2FTUFq (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:05:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FE2125A.5080806@libero.it> References: <1340188512-5761-1-git-send-email-ablock84@googlemail.com> <4FE205CF.9020509@libero.it> <1340215644.6961.12.camel@cwalton-XPS-8300> <4FE2125A.5080806@libero.it> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:05:45 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cross subvolume reflinks (2nd attempt) From: Alexander Block To: kreijack@inwind.it Cc: Calvin Walton , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, dave@jikos.cz, hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chris.mason@fusionio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 17 On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > > Yes please, could someone explain the reason behind this decision ? May > be there are valid reasons, I am asking only to know which ones ? > The reason is that at the moment no user visible operations span mount boundaries and there were discussion on whether this should be allowed for the clone ioctl or not. For the moment, I would already be happy to have cross subvolume reflinks which do not span mount points, this would already be much more as we have at the moment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/