XFS Deduplication with Reflinks

Reflinks for XFS are available in Fedora 27, so you no longer need to pull and compile xfsprogs from git. To leverage reflinks in XFS, you need to create a file system with the reflink=1 flag. [root@starscream mnt]# mkfs.xfs -m reflink=1 filesystem In my example I just created a file and mounted it on a loop device. [root@starscream mnt]# mkfs.xfs -m reflink=1 test.img Then I’ll mount it [root@starscream mnt]# mount -o loop test....

March 4, 2018 · 2 min · 375 words · John Hooks