lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Nov]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??


Justin Cormack wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:08, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> If you really want a filesystem that supports efficient copying you
> probably want it to have the equivalent of COW blocks, so that a copy
> just sets up a few pointers, and the copy only happens when the original
> or copied files are changed.
>
> But basically you wont get a syscall until you have a filesystem with
> semantics that only maps onto this sort of operation.


This could be a problem if COW causes you to run out of space when
writing to the file.

This could also be a benefit if, for whatever reason, you have lots of
copies of the same file that you never change. But that sounds somewhat
pointless to me.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:58    [W:0.173 / U:0.208 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site