Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:49:57 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] splice support |
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:27:25PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > to cause sys_splice() to default to supported? > > It should probably work, the fs guys should know more about that. Any fs > that ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write() works for can use > generic_file_splice_write(). I prefer to keep it sane for now, mason > tells me that eg xfs might need special care.
It looks pretty straightforward to get XFS support done - we will likely need routines that wrap around generic_file_splice_read / write to handle offline files for an HSM, etc, but not too tricky. I'll make the XFS changes once the generic support is in place.
cheers.
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