Re: file cloning in pg_upgrade and CREATE DATABASE

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: file cloning in pg_upgrade and CREATE DATABASE
Date: 2018-07-13 08:22:21
Message-ID: 4106d6bf-6676-46f0-6f73-e680c50fc632@2ndquadrant.com
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On 13.07.18 07:09, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> - XFS has (optional) reflink support. This file system is probably more
>> widely used than Btrfs.
>>
>> - Linux and glibc have a proper function to do this now.
>>
>> - APFS on macOS supports file cloning.
>
> TIL that Solaris 11.4 (closed) ZFS supports reflink() too. Sadly,
> it's not in OpenZFS though I see numerous requests and discussions...

I look forward to your FreeBSD patch then. ;-)

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