[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.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."



More information about the Ocfs2-devel mailing list