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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peng Tao <tao.peng@primarydata.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] nfs: minor cleanups and NFSv42 CLONE support
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:41:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150713074139.GB23338@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKVebiXYYzL=yhMBUjxKk=7p+Aunm1UFPRCzXsqYi5R7Fj7=gg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:36:22PM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> So the main change is .copy_file_range syscall. Was it rejected before
> or can we just push it forward as it is?

It wasn't rejected, but we kept bikeshedding over the semantics insted
of moving it forward.

> If there are objections against a new syscall, we can drop it and move
> on with vfs helper and the new copy_file_range file operation, in
> order to just make nfsd clone work.

I think everyone wants the syscall, but people don't agree on the
semantics.  For now maybe we should just add the method and move the
btrfs/xfs ioctl to common code.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-13  5:50 [PATCH 0/7] nfs: minor cleanups and NFSv42 CLONE support Peng Tao
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 1/7] nfs42: decode_layoutstats does not need res parameter Peng Tao
2015-07-13  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 2/7] nfs42: remove unused declaration Peng Tao
2015-07-13  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 3/7] nfs42: add CLONE xdr functions Peng Tao
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 4/7] nfs42: add CLONE proc functions Peng Tao
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 5/7] nfs42: add NFS_IOC_CLONE ioctl Peng Tao
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 6/7] nfs: get clone_blksize when probing fsinfo Peng Tao
2015-07-13  5:50 ` [PATCH 7/7] nfs42: respect clone_blksize Peng Tao
2015-07-13  6:56 ` [PATCH 0/7] nfs: minor cleanups and NFSv42 CLONE support Christoph Hellwig
2015-07-13  7:30   ` Peng Tao
2015-07-13  7:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-07-13  7:48       ` Peng Tao
2015-07-13  6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-07-13  7:36   ` Peng Tao
2015-07-13  7:41     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-07-13  7:53       ` Peng Tao

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