Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:04:18 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:23:25PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > > Is this relying on btrfs range cloning being atomic? It certainly > > doesn't look atomic. It can modify items across an arbitrarily large > > number of leaf blocks. It can make the changes across multiple > > transactions which could introduce partial modification on reboot after > > crashes. It can fail (the dynamic duo: enomem, eio) and leave the > > desintation partially modified. > > I didn't mean atomic in the failure atomic sense, but in the sense of > being atomic vs other writes, similar to how Posix specifies it for > writes vs other writes. Guess I need to express this intent better.
Ah, right, OK.
- z
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