Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] vfs: Add vfs_copy_file_range() support for pagecache copies

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:24:51AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> My only point with saying we shouldn't reflink by default is that there are
> many (unintelligent) people who will assume that since the syscall has copy
> in it's name, that's what it will do; and, while I don't think we should
> cater to such individuals, it does make sense to have a syscall that says in
> it's name that it copies data actually do so by default.

As far as the user is concerned a reflink is a copy.  A very efficient
copy.
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