On 12/30/24 01:36, Michael Misiewicz wrote:
> ...
> I have validated that my filesystem supports reflinks:
>
> $ dd of=tempfile if=/dev/random bs=1M count=24
> 24+0 records in
> 24+0 records out
> 25165824 bytes (25 MB, 24 MiB) copied, 0.0806355 s, 312 MB/s
> $ cp --reflink=always tempfile tempfile.reflink
> $ btrfs filesystem du -s tempfile tempfile.reflink
> Total Exclusive Set shared Filename
> 24.00MiB 0.00B 24.00MiB tempfile
> 24.00MiB 0.00B 24.00MiB tempfile.reflink
>
>
> And there's nothing interesting in `dmesg`.
>
> I ran this same command today on a macOS system (using apfs) and it
> worked great. I have no idea how to fix this problem and I'm curious if
> anyone has any pointers.
>
What does lsattr say about the source files?
$ lsattr /var/lib/postgresql/16/main/PG_VERSION
Chances are there is "C" attribute set, i.e. NOCOW. In that case I get
exactly the same failure :
could not clone file between old and new data directories: \
Invalid argument
regards
--
Tomas Vondra
