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From: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:04:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150414200418.GA24660@lenny.home.zabbo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150414192325.GB20599@infradead.org>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:23:25PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> > Is this relying on btrfs range cloning being atomic?  It certainly
> > doesn't look atomic.  It can modify items across an arbitrarily large
> > number of leaf blocks.  It can make the changes across multiple
> > transactions which could introduce partial modification on reboot after
> > crashes.  It can fail (the dynamic duo: enomem, eio) and leave the
> > desintation partially modified.
> 
> I didn't mean atomic in the failure atomic sense, but in the sense of
> being atomic vs other writes, similar to how Posix specifies it for
> writes vs other writes.  Guess I need to express this intent better.

Ah, right, OK.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-14 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-10 22:00 [PATCH RFC 0/3] simple copy offloading system call Zach Brown
2015-04-10 22:00 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper Zach Brown
2015-04-10 22:36   ` Trond Myklebust
2015-04-11  0:02     ` Zach Brown
2015-04-11  0:24       ` Trond Myklebust
2015-04-11 13:04         ` Jeff Layton
2015-04-13 16:32           ` Zach Brown
2015-04-14 16:53           ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-14 16:58             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-14 17:16             ` Anna Schumaker
2015-04-14 18:19               ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-04-14 18:22                 ` Zach Brown
2015-04-14 18:29                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-04-14 18:54                     ` Zach Brown
2015-04-14 19:23                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-14 20:04                         ` Zach Brown [this message]
2015-04-10 23:01   ` Andreas Dilger
2015-04-10 22:00 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86: add sys_copy_file_range to syscall tables Zach Brown
2015-04-10 22:00 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] btrfs: add .copy_file_range file operation Zach Brown
2015-04-14 17:08   ` Chris Mason
2015-05-06  6:15 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] simple copy offloading system call Michael Kerrisk
2015-05-07  2:52   ` Andy Lutomirski

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