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Background

I maintain a series of hourly snapshots on my btrfs filesystem using btrbk. The subvolume and snapshots are stored like this (names shortened to make it easier to follow):

/@vol (subvolume)
/btrbk/@vol.00 (snapshots of /@vol, one per hour)
/btrbk/@vol.01 ...
/home/user/vol (mountpoint for /@vol)

Now I deleted a single file in /home/user/vol which I should not have deleted. No problem, I can easily restore from the latest snapshot:

# cd /home/user/vol
# cp -a --reflink=always /btrbk/@vol.01/all_ipv4_numbers.txt ./
cp: failed to clone './all_ipv4_numbers.txt' from '/btrbk/@vol.01/all_ipv4_numbers.txt': Invalid cross-device link

Seems I can't "reflink" the file. But I don't want to end up with two copies of the file. Ideally I want it to look like nothing happened between the most recent snapshot and the next snapshot that will be taken in the future.

^{(Yes, I also have actual backups, but restoring from snapshots are more convenient whenever available!)}

Question

How do I restore a single file from a btrfs snapshot while keeping all the nice references and magic that makes btrfs know that it is the same data in all the snapshots?