Re: Copying Data Blocks

rishi agrawal
2009-01-06T14:12:34Z

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yes i suppose the donor inode is known
moreover the receiver inode's number is also known

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to read data blocks from one inode
> > and copy it to other inode.
> >
> > I mean to copy data from data blocks associated with one inode
> > to the data blocks associated with other inode.
>
> Copying 4K chunk of data itself is a costly operation. and depending
> on the size of your donor inode this can be huge . Why do you want to
> do that ? Do you know the inode of the donor inode ?
>
> thanks -
> Manish
> >
> > Is that possible in kernel space.?
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Regards,
Rishi B. Agrawal

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