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Message-ID: <20150414200418.GA24660@lenny.home.zabbo.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:04:18 -0700
From: Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper
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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