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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 10:14:07 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 00/12] Implement copy offload support
On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 04:39:25PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > But I wasn't aware that this approach is limited to copying within a
> > single block devices; that would be quite pointless indeed.
>
> Not pointless for any FS doing CoW+Rebalancing of block groups (e.g. btrfs) and
> of course GC for FSes on zoned devices. But for this use case, an API allowing
> multiple sources and one destination would be better.
Yes.
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