[Ocfs2-devel] [GIT PULL] ocfs2 changes for 2.6.32

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Sep 17 13:42:29 PDT 2009


 > > I guess one bit of semantics to figure out is what happens if copyfile()
 > > does the async case but then copyfile_ctrl() returns an error halfway
 > > through... is the state of the dest file just undefined?

 > I think that's the one that most filesystems would prefer. Maybe the file 
 > is there, it's just that it's only half copied because the filesystem 
 > filled up. 

Makes sense... and even having the state of having the file half-copied
is not really well-defined since a filesystem may want to optimize
things by copying out of order etc.



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