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Re:ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption by ryao on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:36PM (#38386791)
>Because it was introduced by a FreeBSD developer, and FreeBSD's fs and cp are a generation behind Linux's so they weren't even able to hit this.

Honestly, this feature could have used more testing on both platforms.

Also, FreeBSD's VFS in theoretically able to support reflinks across datasets while Linux's VFS disallows that. It is not really behind.

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Re:ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption by Always_Anon on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:38PM (#38464170)
>FreeBSD's VFS in theoretically able to support reflinks across datasets while Linux's VFS disallows that.

I don't believe so, you're still not able to hardlink across file systems in BSD.

>It is not really behind.

It is behind: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/405

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