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[172.10.226.31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i11-v6sm23478157qtc.96.2018.10.30.13.56.25 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:56:26 -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: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:56:04 -0400 Message-Id: <20181030205614.40754-3-olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.1 (Apple Git-78) In-Reply-To: <20181030205614.40754-1-olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> References: <20181030205614.40754-1-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 prior to attempting a copy. Instead, a file system driver implementation of the destination file is allowed to perform a cross-device copy_file_range(). If that filesystem does not support cross device copy, it returns -EXDEV. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia --- man2/copy_file_range.2 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2 index 20374ab..03750c5 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 @@ -129,9 +130,9 @@ Out of memory. There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy. .TP .B EXDEV -The files referred to by -.IR file_in " and " file_out -are not on the same mounted filesystem. +The file system of the +.I file_out +does not support cross device file copy. .SH VERSIONS The .BR copy_file_range ()