Re: [PATCH 09/11] vfs: push copy_file_ranges -EXDEV checks down

Olga Kornievskaia
2018-12-04T23:34:43Z

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:18 PM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:43:47AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Well, this isn't bugfixes anymore, but adding new features..
>
> I made that perfectly clear in the cover description. I called it
> twice, one of them explicitly stating that this series made these
> infrastructure changes because we have pending functionality that
> dependents on cross-device copies being supported in a sane manner.
>
> I'll drop it if you want, but then I'll just have to come back after
> all the NFS code is merged and do yet more cleanup work.

This doesn't needs to be fixed in this patch series. I think Anna was
pointing out to me for something to take a look at.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com