[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager PATCH 3/3] man: add man page for virt-clone --reflink

Chen Hanxiao chenhanxiao at cn.fujitsu.com
Wed Jan 28 04:12:13 UTC 2015


Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 man/virt-clone.pod | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/virt-clone.pod b/man/virt-clone.pod
index 04d2e68..d307ee1 100644
--- a/man/virt-clone.pod
+++ b/man/virt-clone.pod
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ No storage is cloned: disk images specific by --file are preserved as is,
 and referenced in the new clone XML. This is useful if you want to clone
 a VM XML template, but not the storage contents.
 
+=item --reflink
+
+When --reflink is specified, perform a lightweight copy. This is much faster
+if source images and destination iamges are all on the same btrfs filesystem.
+If COW copy is not possible, then virt-clone error out.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Networking Configuration
-- 
2.1.0




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