Re: [Lsf10-pc] [LSF/Filesystems][ATTEND]

[Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>]

On 05/17/2010 06:24 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Madan, Anshul wrote:
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>> Requesting Attendance:
>>
>> 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
>> [1] and at previous LSF summits. Joel Becker originally proposed a
>> syscall called reflink() that was specific to copying an inode to a
>> copy-on-write snapshot. Since then, the need for a generic copy
>> interface  that encompassed the reflink semantics as well as less
>> restrictive ones has been recognized based on discussion between Linus
>> 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 the
> network filesystem community has to say.  NFS's server copy capability
> is something I definitely had in mind.
>
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>> [1] Relevant posts:
>>
>> 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
>    

I think that this would be an interesting subject as well, especially 
given the mix of storage & FS people at the event.

Ric