Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758090Ab2FTUVD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:03 -0400 Received: from smtp208.alice.it ([82.57.200.104]:59705 "EHLO smtp208.alice.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754452Ab2FTUVB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 337 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:00 EDT Message-ID: <4FE22F64.3010101@inwind.it> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:15:32 +0200 From: Goffredo Baroncelli Reply-To: kreijack@inwind.it User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120418 Icedove/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Block 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cross subvolume reflinks (2nd attempt) 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> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 28 On 06/20/2012 10:05 PM, Alexander Block wrote: > 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. Yes, I understood the same. But nobody was able to explain why . 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. This is reasonable. > . > -- 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/