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SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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

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