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		vetinari on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus: Don't Use ZFS 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 on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

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.

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