Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonathan Rogers
Subject Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch
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Msg-id 511C1B1A.3050206@socialserve.com
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In response to Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 02:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The big-picture question of course is whether we want to carry and
>> maintain a filesystem-specific hack.  I don't have a sense that btrfs
>> is so widely used as to justify this.
> 
> If this is a valuable hack, it seems like it could work on ZFS as well.
>  If we could make it for any snapshot-capable filesystem, and not just
> BTRFS, then it would make more sense.
> 

Yes, that's exactly what I hope will be possible. I need to investigate
ZFS to see if it's feasible.

-- 
Jonathan Ross Rogers



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