Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Richard Yao
I do not think the original project idea is feasible as stated. On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:19:08PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> This just seems like a ZFS project, and not like a Gentoo project. >> I'd say the same if this were about adding

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Richard Yao
It is a moot point because I do not think this project idea is feasible. On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Yao wrote: >> Things that provide us with improvements over what we have are >> definitely worth consideration as GSoC projects. H

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:19:08PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > This just seems like a ZFS project, and not like a Gentoo project. > I'd say the same if this were about adding a mute button to tabs in > Chromium, or fixing the offline btrfsck, or whatever. All of those > things would be useful to

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Yao wrote: > Things that provide us with improvements over what we have are > definitely worth consideration as GSoC projects. However, what is > accepted ultimately depends on not only feedback from a potential > mentor, but also a vote of Gentoo developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Yuxuan Shui
Hi, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > > On 03/12/2014 08:45 AM, Alex Xu wrote: > > On 12/03/14 03:15 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I would like to implement cp --reflink support for ZFSOnLinux as my GSoC > >> project. > >> > >> cp --reflink is used to create a COW

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Richard Yao
On 03/12/2014 08:45 AM, Alex Xu wrote: > On 12/03/14 03:15 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to implement cp --reflink support for ZFSOnLinux as my GSoC >> project. >> >> cp --reflink is used to create a COW copy of a file, so the file will not >> take any disk space if it's not modi

Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Alex Xu
On 12/03/14 03:15 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to implement cp --reflink support for ZFSOnLinux as my GSoC > project. > > cp --reflink is used to create a COW copy of a file, so the file will not > take any disk space if it's not modified. This feature is very useful for > cases

[gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

2014-03-12 Thread Yuxuan Shui
Hi, I would like to implement cp --reflink support for ZFSOnLinux as my GSoC project. cp --reflink is used to create a COW copy of a file, so the file will not take any disk space if it's not modified. This feature is very useful for cases like storing a lot of almost identical virtual machine im