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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Peng Tao <tao.peng-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Trond Myklebust
	<trond.myklebust-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>,
	Anna Schumaker
	<anna.schumaker-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	Zach Brown <zab-ugsP4Wv/S6ZeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jeff.layton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>,
	bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org,
	"Darrick J. Wong"
	<darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org,
	linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-btrfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Steve French
	<steve.french-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] vfs: add COPY_FILE_CLONE_ONLY flag
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:58:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151113085822.GA2272@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445728636-10109-2-git-send-email-tao.peng-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 07:17:08AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> To tell file system not to return partial success in the
> .copy_file_range method. This is useful to implement the
> clone (or reflink) functionality.

The return value is only part of it, the other part is to
make it atomic.  Thus I don't think overloading copy_file_range
is a good idea - we should have a seaprate .clone_file_range that
is called by the btrfs ioctls moved to the core, and have
vfs_copy_file_range use .clone_file_range if that exists, and
if none of the potentially conflicting future flags like
COPY_FALLOC are present.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-13  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-24 23:17 [PATCH 0/9] vfs: move btrfs clone ioctls to common code Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] cifs: add .copy_file_range file operation Peng Tao
2015-10-27 17:13   ` Steve French
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 3/9] nfs42: " Peng Tao
     [not found] ` <1445728636-10109-1-git-send-email-tao.peng-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-24 23:17   ` [PATCH 1/9] vfs: add COPY_FILE_CLONE_ONLY flag Peng Tao
     [not found]     ` <1445728636-10109-2-git-send-email-tao.peng-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-13  8:58       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-10-24 23:17   ` [PATCH 4/9] vfs: pull btrfs clone API to vfs layer Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 5/9] btrfs: remove btrfs_ioctl_clone(_range) Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 6/9] cifs: remove private handler of BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 7/9] nfs42: remove private clone ioctl handler Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 8/9] nfsd: Pass filehandle to nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() Peng Tao
2015-10-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 9/9] NFSD: Implement the CLONE call Peng Tao

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