← Back to context Comment by Annatar 6 years ago XFS is not copy on write. 2 comments Annatar Reply vetinari 6 years ago XFS has supported reflinks for some time already, just the deduplication is kind of experimental.Supporting reflinks is actually more, than can be said about ZoL (see zfsonlinux#405). zepearl 6 years ago I think that you're both right - under normal conditions XFS not CoW, but when using the reflink option it does use CoW => kind of a mix.
vetinari 6 years ago XFS has supported reflinks for some time already, just the deduplication is kind of experimental.Supporting reflinks is actually more, than can be said about ZoL (see zfsonlinux#405). zepearl 6 years ago I think that you're both right - under normal conditions XFS not CoW, but when using the reflink option it does use CoW => kind of a mix.
zepearl 6 years ago I think that you're both right - under normal conditions XFS not CoW, but when using the reflink option it does use CoW => kind of a mix.
XFS has supported reflinks for some time already, just the deduplication is kind of experimental.
Supporting reflinks is actually more, than can be said about ZoL (see zfsonlinux#405).
I think that you're both right - under normal conditions XFS not CoW, but when using the reflink option it does use CoW => kind of a mix.