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

From Phil Sorber
Subject Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch
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In response to Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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.

I was thinking that too, but I think this is a file level clone, not a
whole filesystem. As far as I can tell, you can't clone individual
files in ZFS.

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