From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from yrk.mx.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.81.84]:45234 "EHLO yrk.mx.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751220AbdH2NkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:40:01 -0400 Subject: Re: XFS reflinks References: <04eacb90-aac9-7c47-f074-fa91eb253822@bytemark.co.uk> <20170829130046.GA28896@infradead.org> From: Chris Cottam Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:39:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170829130046.GA28896@infradead.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OdFT5rE7mu3Q2N40DEAtE9k59fqA2r14n" Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --OdFT5rE7mu3Q2N40DEAtE9k59fqA2r14n Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="96bRRCvjwHbkNJbPxn0lbGO14PSe3JsGm"; protected-headers="v1" From: Chris Cottam To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: XFS reflinks References: <04eacb90-aac9-7c47-f074-fa91eb253822@bytemark.co.uk> <20170829130046.GA28896@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20170829130046.GA28896@infradead.org> --96bRRCvjwHbkNJbPxn0lbGO14PSe3JsGm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Could I enquire about the severity of a few issues? Regard Chris On 29/08/17 14:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Chris Cottam wrote: >> I've got a project where being able to take COW copies of a VMs disc >> would be really useful (disc snapshots to be then archived off elsewhe= re) >> >> How stable is the the experimental reflinks feature and do you have an= y >> idea when it might be declared stable? >=20 > I've got a customer that heavily uses (and tests) reflinks. They > initially found a few issues, but these days the QA teams finds > bugs in decade old XFS code but not related to reflinks.. >=20 > You're mileage my vary, but I think we should be able to drop the > experimental tag now. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in= > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >=20 --=20 Chris Cottam Bytemark Hosting Support http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ tel: +44 (0) 1904 890 890 --96bRRCvjwHbkNJbPxn0lbGO14PSe3JsGm-- --OdFT5rE7mu3Q2N40DEAtE9k59fqA2r14n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZpW6sAAoJEFZm4Qf2RyJWSMwP/iWMypUjJRDWJumNlyR0ynTA MPnd0ciDb75axAFuMH2R5oYZxy8/6JDuL34oEcT1cLjMcyP27cCDEK8tthNuvJGf Idakahav+XpHa0M3YRNjBUm0C73IboGEO09m2h806y//3Mpmd8xw+uMqbYKu+Dg2 /Rry8QLuvSyZ5zYQy2vkp3jzo6IOpZYCskQUnpyU8zN9fZsuzT8g93aGZ6vBe1Hv dQAAUl/s/src3sn7LUMjOaqeW/YWW8zaGJ9t55S46rP06obx0871Tgm2dcr9JO/U vl1ZpCFVI+ES/Q9DSepKHSJu02RlXP06DZRYD47TR7obNuFdnKRlco+9r3LIGk1T dKHFcaSEsUPHxGpZEaRCY2csEhlNEjELsyoWqPJfl1zTCdXHwv1Urg9n1Oel0xqC oyLgSU81z+DHRLV8SbYkT8HcAfE0ch794GbeW2QagZWo7vG1HGIQzZhErABETx9i f7HEVZ3/aJYE6Unw46otdufBB8hXgGl9AdMl8o717MVDu1NQo4kVjONuXOG/duBi AuLdHkB1cRQUtMbL8fsRGPFJatRVCBQqVFsmlBXFYFJDMLKwU6CGZ2J5dGH+fxTT wNJi0sLkbCtvFgK1Buvg/wbv9+DZb+cdHa8T9tiL7waq73EoqwaFLrFvokg3zex9 nzzH2fGb2xT4f8H24GFd =f6Aj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OdFT5rE7mu3Q2N40DEAtE9k59fqA2r14n--