Re: About reflink len = 0 behavior

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 03:50:46PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
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> 
> At 10/20/2016 03:46 PM, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > Hi Darrick, xfs guys and btrfs guys.
> > 
> > Although such question is quite late as reflink generic tests are in
> > fstests for a long time, I'm still not sure what's the correct behavior
> > for reflink len = 0.
> > 
> > Test case generic/182 is causing different output between btrfs and xfs.
> > 
> > For btrfs, dedupe will just return 0 and check nothing, while for xfs
> > len == 0 means to check the whole file length.
> > 
> > Both makes sense for me, for btrfs len = 0 behavior, it just follows
> > read/write functions.
> > And I assume xfs follows reflink behavior, when len is not specified,
> > then reflink the length of src file.
> > 
> > But since it's a generic test, we need to unify the behavior.
> > 
> > So, which one is the standard and which document should we follow for
> > such behavior definition?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Qu

Hey, Qu,

I brought this up a few months back here [1], and I think the conclusion
was that consistency with clone (so the XFS behavior) was probably what
we wanted. I just forgot to follow up and figure out if it would break
any userspace programs in a way that mattered (I doubt it).

1: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=146828374631829&w=2

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Omar
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