[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 17/39] ocfs2: Add ioctl for reflink.

Tao Ma tao.ma at oracle.com
Sat May 2 07:14:28 PDT 2009


Hi Christoph,
    Joel has told me that we will have a common system call, but I have 
no detail about it yet.

So I just go ahead with my current work. I will change it in my next 
round of patches.

Tao

Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:34:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:58:29AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>>     
>>> The ioctl will take 2 parameters: old_path and new_path and
>>> works like link.
>>>       
>> As discussed during the FS/Storage summit please make this a proper
>> sys_reflink system call and don't add a stupid ioctl.
>>     
>
> Christoph,
> 	Be nice to Tao, I haven't sent him the syscall yet :-)
>
> Joel
>
>   



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