Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

Miklos Szeredi
2009-09-15T06:44:52Z

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Are we going to add 'freflink[at]()' at some point?

We already have an interface for "freflink()" called splice(). Splice
has all the arguments needed to implement refcounted data copies and
more.

Yes, splice's name implies more of a "piecing data together" type of
operation, but we can look at reflink() or copyfile() as just "splice
one big piece from here to there".

Thanks,
Miklos