From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [LSF/Filesystems][ATTEND] Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:24:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20100517222432.GC22775@mail.oracle.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: lsf10-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Lentini, James" , "Myklebust, Trond" To: "Madan, Anshul" Return-path: Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:27065 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755919Ab0EQWZE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 18:25:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Madan, Anshul wrote: > Requesting Attendance: >=20 > Trond Myklebust, James Lentini and Anshul Madan I (Joel Becker ) would like to request attendance to join in this conversation. I'm the original proposer of reflink(2). > This topic has been discussed both on Linux development mailing lists= =20 > [1] and at previous LSF summits. Joel Becker originally proposed a=20 > syscall called reflink() that was specific to copying an inode=A0to a= =20 > copy-on-write snapshot. Since then, the need for a generic copy=20 > interface=A0 that encompassed the reflink semantics as well as less=20 > restrictive ones has been recognized based on discussion between Linu= s=20 > Torvalds and Joel. My last proposal for the copyfile(2) interface is reference [2]. I think it is a good starting point, but I'm very interested in what th= e network filesystem community has to say. NFS's server copy capability is something I definitely had in mind. > [1] Relevant posts: >=20 > http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com/msg04347.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com/msg04395.html Joel --=20 "Reader, suppose you were and idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html