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From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, <Trond.Myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	<bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Add COPY nfs operation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:05:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568AD096.1010305@Netapp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151220155321.GC18236@infradead.org>

On 12/20/2015 10:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> +	if (res.write_res.committed != NFS_FILE_SYNC) {
>> +		status = nfs42_proc_commit(dst, pos_dst, res.write_res.count);
>> +		if (status)
>> +			return status;
>> +	}
> 
> Do we really expect data to be stabe on disk after a copy_file_range?
> Seems like the page cache variant doesn't guarantee that, and it would
> also be different from all other I/O syscalls.

It doesn't have to be, I just couldn't figure out how to mark the range as "needs commit" for the next time somebody runs fsync().

Anna

> 
> Either way we will probably need to document the assumptions in the man
> page.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-18 21:05 [PATCH v2 0/3] NFSv4.2: Add support for the COPY operation Anna Schumaker
2015-12-18 21:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] NFSD: Don't pass filehandle to nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() Anna Schumaker
2015-12-20 15:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-04 19:01     ` Anna Schumaker
2015-12-18 21:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] NFSD: Implement the COPY call Anna Schumaker
2015-12-20 15:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-04 19:39     ` Anna Schumaker
2015-12-18 21:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Add COPY nfs operation Anna Schumaker
2015-12-20 15:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-04 20:05     ` Anna Schumaker [this message]
2015-12-18 21:05 ` [RFC v2 4/3] vfs_copy_range() test program Anna Schumaker

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