On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 07:17:08AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > To tell file system not to return partial success in the > .copy_file_range method. This is useful to implement the > clone (or reflink) functionality.
The return value is only part of it, the other part is to make it atomic. Thus I don't think overloading copy_file_range is a good idea - we should have a seaprate .clone_file_range that is called by the btrfs ioctls moved to the core, and have vfs_copy_file_range use .clone_file_range if that exists, and if none of the potentially conflicting future flags like COPY_FALLOC are present. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
