[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] ocfs2: wire up {clone, copy, dedupe}_range

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:46:27PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:43:25PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:42:55PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > This is the fourth submission of a series of patches that wire up the
> > > existing ocfs2 reflinking capabilities to the new(ish) VFS
> > > {copy,clone,dedupe}_range interface.  The first few patches hoist some
> > > of the reflink/dedupe prep functions into the VFS since the code is
> > > common to XFS and ocfs2.  Then there are fixes for some ocfs2 bugs that
> > > I found; and finally the last kernel patch contains the new code.
> > > 
> > > A few minor fixes to xfstests are needed to make more of the tests run;
> > > those have been sent separately to the fstests lists.  Some of the
> > > xfstests will fail because ocfs2's design does not allow sharing of
> > > blocks between disjoint sets of files with shared blocks.  That is to
> > > say, if A shares with B and C shares with D, B and C cannot be made to
> > > share blocks.
> > 
> > Merged, will be in tonight's push.
> 
> ... of #for-next, that is - not to Linus ;-)

Ok.  Thank you!  I'm looking forward to wider testing, particularly
the ocfs2 pieces.

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