From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:42:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adapr9pb8wa.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909171316230.4950@localhost.localdomain> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:17:55 -0700 (PDT)")
> > 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 20:04 [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32 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 [this message]
2009-09-17 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 1:43 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2009-09-18 13:34 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-09-18 18:37 ` Joel Becker
2009-09-18 17:23 ` Peter W. Morreale
2009-09-18 18:39 ` Joel Becker
2009-09-15 6:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-09-23 11:02 ` [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32 (take 2, no syscall) Joel Becker
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2009-09-22 0:51 [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32 George Spelvin
2009-09-22 3:28 George Spelvin
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