Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch

From: Jonathan Rogers <jrogers(at)socialserve(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch
Date: 2013-02-13 23:00:42
Message-ID: 511C1B1A.3050206@socialserve.com
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Josh Berkus 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.
>

Yes, that's exactly what I hope will be possible. I need to investigate
ZFS to see if it's feasible.

--
Jonathan Ross Rogers

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