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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] The reflink(2) system call v2.
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 20:10:18 -0700
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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:59:04PM -0400, jim owens wrote:
> You certainly did not address:
>
> - desire for one single system call to handle both
>   owner preservation and create with current owner.

	Nope, and I don't intend to.  reflink() is a snapshotting call,
not a kitchen sink.

Joel

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