Re: hashify

Sandino Araico Sánchez <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:03:30 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.vserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/03/18 10:10, Tor Rune Skoglund wrote:
>
> If nothing is there in the code today to handle such issues, what is
> the right way to deal with it:
>
> 1) Don't care, as any problems arising from any possibly broken in-vm
> hardlinks are so rare that side-effects of it "never" happens?
>
> 2) Patch the vhashify code so that files that are already hardlinks
> inside a vm will not be hashified? (As suggested above)
>
> 3) Patch the CoW code so that it handles files that was originally
> hardlinked in the vm to be restored as hardlinked also when CoW does
> its work?
>
Patch de CoW code so that it breaks the hard link only when the
hard-linked other file is outside the VM. Hard links inside the VM
should be preserved as such.
>
> 4) Don't use hashify?
>
> What do you suggest? Anyone with any experiences to share?
>
> BR, Tor Rune Skoglund, [email protected]
>
>

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