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[172.10.226.31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p64-v6sm8037667qkc.96.2018.10.26.13.11.01 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:11:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Olga Kornievskaia To: trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com, anna.schumaker@netapp.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com, miklos@szeredi.hu Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/1] man-page: copy_file_range(2) allow for cross-device copies Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:10:47 -0400 Message-Id: <20181026201057.36899-3-olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.1 (Apple Git-78) In-Reply-To: <20181026201057.36899-1-olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> References: <20181026201057.36899-1-olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> Sender: linux-cifs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Olga Kornievskaia A proposed VFS change removes the check for the files to reside under the same file system. Instead, a file system driver implementation is allowed to perform a cross-device copy_file_range() and if the file system fails to support it instead fallback to doing a do_splice copy. Therefore, EXDEV error code only applies to kernel version prior to such support. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia --- man2/copy_file_range.2 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2 index 20374ab..88b40bb 100644 --- a/man2/copy_file_range.2 +++ b/man2/copy_file_range.2 @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ The .BR copy_file_range () system call performs an in-kernel copy between two file descriptors without the additional cost of transferring data from the kernel to user space -and then back into the kernel. +and then back into the kernel. Starting kernel version 4.21 passed in +file descriptors are not required to be under the same mounted file system. It copies up to .I len bytes of data from file descriptor @@ -131,7 +132,8 @@ There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy. .B EXDEV The files referred to by .IR file_in " and " file_out -are not on the same mounted filesystem. +are not on the same mounted filesystem when the kernel does not support +cross device file copy. .SH VERSIONS The .BR copy_file_range ()