Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:00:06 +0200 | From | Stelian Ionescu <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:33:32PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >Previously Spam wrote: >> How so? The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the >> copying should also know to copy everything, otherwise you can >> implement everything into applications and just skip the whole >> filesystem part. > >UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data >manually. couldn't sendfile(2) be used for that ? perhaps a flag parameter could be added to sendfile(2) which specifies whether to copy _all_ metadata if both fd's correspond to files, something like either O_METADATA or O_NOMETADATA
-- Stelian Ionescu aka fe[nl]ix
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