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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: try to clone files first in vfs_copy_file_range
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:08:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129120855.GA17073@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxh8DgL6KyhY+=yintpKkOPh5gpn5AGaUUdGvO+dx5rMRw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:28:01PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > [fullquote removed, please get your email etiquette right or I'll stop
> > responding]
> >
> 
> Sorry. I though the practice was to keep original patch in tact for review.

The practice is to quote what's relevant.  You generally have a lot of
leeway to decide how much exactly you think fits, but a fullquote only
ever makes sense when forwarding the mail to someone not previously
involved with the thread.

> To be fair, Clone is a fast metadata operation on xfs/btrfs/ocfs2.
> I don't think we can know for sure how a future file systems will choose to
> implement clone, nor can we tell for sure how any version of remote Windows CIFS
> server will implement it.

If it's not a fast and atomic metadata operation it must not implement
clone_file_range, but should implement copy_file_range instead.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-25  8:40 make copy_file_range do the right thing Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-25  8:40 ` [PATCH] fs: try to clone files first in vfs_copy_file_range Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-29  5:15   ` Amir Goldstein
2016-11-29  8:55     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-29 10:28       ` Amir Goldstein
2016-11-29 12:08         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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