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From: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
To: Joel.Becker@oracle.com
Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32
Date: 21 Sep 2009 20:51:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090922005134.20722.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)

> Perhaps ->copyfile takes the following flags:
>
> #define ALLOW_COW_SHARED	0x0001
> #define REQUIRE_COW_SHARED	0x0002
> #define REQUIRE_BASIC_ATTRS	0x0004
> #define REQUIRE_FULL_ATTRS	0x0008
> #define REQUIRE_ATOMIC		0x0010
> #define SNAPSHOT		(REQUIRE_COW_SHARED |
>				 REQUIRE_BASIC_ATTRS |
>				 REQUIRE_ATOMIC)
> #define SNAPSHOT_PRESERVE	(SNAPSHOT | REQUIRE_FULL_ATTRS)

Um, could I strongly suggest that flags == 0 be the "succeed if at all
possible case", and various options limit it.

In particular, invert ALLOW_COW_SHARED to REQUIRE_ALLOCATE.

Another possibly useful flag would be REQUIRE_OPTIMIZED.
I.e. if it's not appreciably faster than a read/write loop, perhaps
the application would prefer to do it itself.

We also have to define the error code to return in case of a flag
violation.  ENOTSUP?

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-22  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-22  0:51 George Spelvin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-22  3:28 [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32 George Spelvin
2009-09-11 20:04 Joel Becker
2009-09-14 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-14 22:14   ` Joel Becker
2009-09-14 23:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-15  0:04       ` Joel Becker
2009-09-15  0:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-15  0:54           ` Joel Becker
2009-09-15  2:01             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-15  4:05               ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-15  4:35                 ` Joel Becker
2009-09-15  4:06               ` Joel Becker
2009-09-15 16:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-15 21:45                   ` Joel Becker
2009-09-16  4:20                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-16  4:40                       ` Joel Becker
2009-09-17 16:29                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 16:38                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-17 20:16                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 18:40                           ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-17 20:17                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 20:34                               ` Joel Becker
2009-09-18  0:29                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 20:42                               ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-17 20:55                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-15  6:44   ` Miklos Szeredi

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