Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

Roland Dreier
2009-09-17T20:42:29Z

> > I guess one bit of semantics to figure out is what happens if copyfile()
> > does the async case but then copyfile_ctrl() returns an error halfway
> > through... is the state of the dest file just undefined?

> I think that's the one that most filesystems would prefer. Maybe the file
> is there, it's just that it's only half copied because the filesystem
> filled up.

Makes sense... and even having the state of having the file half-copied
is not really well-defined since a filesystem may want to optimize
things by copying out of order etc.