[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 3/3] fs: Add the reflink(2) system call.
Matthew Wilcox
matthew at wil.cx
Sat May 2 23:27:57 PDT 2009
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:15:03PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> This implements reflinkat(2) and reflink(2). See
> Documentation/reflink.txt for a description of the reflink(2) system
> call.
Do we need to add sys_reflink()? Since sys_reflinkat() has a superset
of the functionality, presumably glibc can provide both reflink() and
reflinkat() calls, and userspace need never know that glibc is calling
sys_reflinkat() for both.
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