From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] man2: document FICLONE and FICLONERANGE
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:48:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160315164810.30909.3152.stgit@birch.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160315164804.30909.83270.stgit-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
Document the FICLONE and FICLONERANGE ioctls, formerly known as the
BTRFS_IOC_CLONE and BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
---
man2/ioctl_ficlone.2 | 1
man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2 | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 125 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 man2/ioctl_ficlone.2
create mode 100644 man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2 b/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19bb348
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2 b/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5c72aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+.\" Copyright (C) 2016 Oracle. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+.\" published by the Free Software Foundation.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
+.\" Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.TH IOCTL-FICLONERANGE 2 2016-02-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+ioctl_ficlonerange, ioctl_ficlone \- share some the data of one file with another file
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.br
+.B #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+.br
+.B #include <linux/fs.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int ioctl(int " dest_fd ", FICLONERANGE, struct file_clone_range * " arg );
+.br
+.BI "int ioctl(int " dest_fd ", FICLONE, int " src_fd );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+If a filesystem supports files sharing physical storage between multiple
+files ("reflink"), this
+.BR ioctl (2)
+system call can be used to make some of the data in the
+.B src_fd
+file appear in the
+.B dest_fd
+file by sharing the underlying storage, which is faster than making a separate
+physical copy of the data. If a file write should occur to a shared region,
+the filesystem must ensure that the changes remain private to the file being
+written. This behavior is commonly referred to as "copy on write".
+
+This ioctl reflinks up to
+.IR src_length
+bytes from file descriptor
+.IR src_fd
+at offset
+.IR src_offset
+into the file
+.IR dest_fd
+at offset
+.IR dest_offset ",
+provided that both are files. This information is conveyed in a structure of
+the following form:
+.in +4n
+.nf
+
+struct file_clone_range {
+ __s64 src_fd;
+ __u64 src_offset;
+ __u64 src_length;
+ __u64 dest_offset;
+};
+
+.fi
+.in
+Clones are atomic with regards to concurrent writes, so no locks need to be
+taken to obtain a consistent cloned copy.
+
+The FICLONE ioctl clones entire files.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.PP
+.SH ERRORS
+Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following:
+.TP
+.B EXDEV
+.IR dest_fd " and " src_fd
+are not on the same mounted filesystem.
+.TP
+.B EISDIR
+One of the files is a directory and the filesystem does not support shared
+regions in directories.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+The filesystem does not support reflinking the ranges of the given files. This
+error can also appear if either file descriptor represents a device, fifo, or
+socket. Disk filesystems generally require the offset and length arguments
+to be aligned to the fundamental block size. XFS and btrfs do not support
+overlapping reflink ranges in the same file.
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+.IR src_fd
+is not open for reading;
+.IR dest_fd
+is not open for writing or is open for append-only writes; or the filesystem
+which
+.IR src_fd
+resides on does not support reflink.
+.TP
+.B EPERM
+.IR dest_fd
+is immutable.
+.TP
+.B ETXTBSY
+One of the files is a swap file. Swap files cannot share storage.
+.TP
+.B EOPNOTSUPP
+This can appear if the filesystem does not support reflinking either file
+descriptor.
+.SH NOTES
+Because a copy on write operation requires the allocation of new storage, the
+.B fallocate (2)
+operation may un-share shared blocks to guarantee that subsequent writes will
+not fail because of lack of disk space.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+This API is Linux-specific. This ioctl was previously known as
+.B BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE
+and was private to btrfs.
+.fi
+.in
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ioctl (2)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-15 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 16:48 [PATCH v5 0/2] man-pages: document reflink/dedupe ioctls Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20160315164804.30909.83270.stgit-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-15 16:48 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
[not found] ` <20160315164810.30909.3152.stgit-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] man2: document FICLONE and FICLONERANGE walter harms
[not found] ` <56ED86B6.2000506-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-20 19:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-06-08 10:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-03-15 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] man2: document the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20160315164817.30909.61815.stgit-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-08 10:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <97312350-d296-4e8a-3ae8-59e221a83ea9-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-08 16:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-03-15 17:04 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] man-pages: document reflink/dedupe ioctls Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-19 8:56 [RFCv4 " Darrick J. Wong
2015-12-19 8:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] man2: document FICLONE and FICLONERANGE Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20151219085613.12660.75735.stgit-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-28 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20160128133329.GA7610-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-28 19:18 ` Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20160128191814.GA5849-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-15 8:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20160315082737.GA1498-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-15 16:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
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