Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32 | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:44:36 +0200 |
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Are we going to add 'freflink[at]()' at some point?
We already have an interface for "freflink()" called splice(). Splice has all the arguments needed to implement refcounted data copies and more.
Yes, splice's name implies more of a "piecing data together" type of operation, but we can look at reflink() or copyfile() as just "splice one big piece from here to there".
Thanks, Miklos
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