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    SubjectRE: New copyfile system call - discuss before LSF?
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Zach Brown [mailto:zab@redhat.com]
    > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:22 PM
    > To: Ric Wheeler
    > Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Myklebust, Trond; Linux FS Devel; linux-
    > kernel@vger.kernel.org; Chris L. Mason; Christoph Hellwig; Alexander Viro;
    > Martin K. Petersen; Hannes Reinecke; Joel Becker
    > Subject: Re: New copyfile system call - discuss before LSF?
    >
    > > This seems to be suspiciously close to a clear consensus on how to
    > > move forward after many years of spinning our wheels. Anyone want to
    > > promote an actual patch before we change our collective minds?
    >
    > It seems like we'd want to start with the exisiting (presumably
    > bitrotten) prototypes that Trond has for nfs and that Martin has for
    > block->scsi. Mash the new syscall on top of and get them working in
    > current mainline.
    >
    > I'd be happy to take responsibility for making forward progress if no one else
    > has the bandwidth.
    >
    > Trond, Martin, would that make sense? Are the most recent versions of the
    > prototypes available somewhere?

    Hi Zach,

    The wildly bitrotten NFS copyfile prototype can be found on

    ftp://ftp.netapp.com/frm-ntap/opensource/linux_copyfileat/v2/linux_copyfileat_v2.tgz

    Please open with extreme caution and apply the resulting patches to a Linux 2.6.34.2 kernel...

    Cheers
    Trond


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