Hello List,
For the PostgreSQL upgrade to version 18, I took the opportunity to test
the reflink support in pg_upgrade (with --clone) on OpenZFS 2.3.4 /
Linux 6.15.11 and it worked flawlessly, being a huge time saver here.
I've looked into the documentation for pg_upgrade and it's only
mentioning btrfs and XFS on Linux and not FreeBSD at all, so I thought
It'd be an interesting heads-up to report that Linux gained a 3rd FS and
also I think FreeBSD in general the ability for doing reflink copies.
OpenZFS has been supporting this since 2.2 but has had it disabled due
to data corruption bugs, now since 2.3 the sysctl (zfs_bclone_enabled on
Linux, vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled on FreeBSD) has been enabled by default so
only the zpool feature "block_cloning" has to be enabled, which might be
the case when running "zpool upgrade".
I haven't had the possibility to check this on FreeBSD yet, but I don't
see why this should not work as I also can't spot anything in the
OpenZFS docs regarding reflink / block cloning limitations on FreeBSD.
Also I saw one of the OpenZFS devs writing on Reddit about block cloning
being supported on FreeBSD v14.
Regards,
Marcel
