[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] The reflink(2) system call v4.

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:02:39AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> For simplicity and robustness, I would only support the none or all
> flags, i.e. preserve can be a simple bool.  I don't think you really
> want to deal with the individual flags, and I don't see a use case for
> them.

	The simple use case I can think of is "I want a snapshot, but I
don't have rights to copy the MAC context".  Or "I want to own it, but I
want to keep all the ACLs for other users".
	Basically, if I'm adding another int argument to reflinkat(2), I
wanted to consider the future.  Maybe define it as 1 or 0, and leave the
use of the other bits for future possibilities?  If we're lucky, of
course, we never need future changes.

Joel

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