[opensuse] xfs planed to be used for root soon?
I was wondering if opensuse was planning to use xfs for its root again, soon? xfs formally has reflink copying and can automatically perform some types of deduplication. It's 1 better than using a hard link since only the data is currently dedupped and 2 copies of the same file can be owned by different people, even though the data is linked. They also have COW, so if you change bytes in the middle, only those bytes need to be written, like 2-1GB files were equal, copied 4k of 1's into the middle of one of the original two files. The space on disk went up by 4k for the new file and its sectors were deduped from the other file. No one would claim perfection, but given the frequent problems with BRTFS, it might yield lower problems. Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but it seemed cool! 'cp' even has support for doing reflnk copies or not. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Adam Majer
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L A Walsh