Document the FICLONE and FICLONERANGE ioctls, formerly known as the
BTRFS_IOC_CLONE and BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
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+.\" Copyright (C) 2016 Oracle. All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.TH IOCTL-FICLONERANGE 2 2016-02-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+ioctl_ficlonerange, ioctl_ficlone \- share some the data of one file with another file
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.br
+.B #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+.br
+.B #include <linux/fs.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int ioctl(int " dest_fd ", FICLONERANGE, struct file_clone_range * " arg );
+.br
+.BI "int ioctl(int " dest_fd ", FICLONE, int " src_fd );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+If a filesystem supports files sharing physical storage between multiple
+files ("reflink"), this
+.BR ioctl (2)
+system call can be used to make some of the data in the
+.B src_fd
+file appear in the
+.B dest_fd
+file by sharing the underlying storage, which is faster than making a separate
+physical copy of the data. If a file write should occur to a shared region,
+the filesystem must ensure that the changes remain private to the file being
+written. This behavior is commonly referred to as "copy on write".
+
+This ioctl reflinks up to
+.IR src_length
+bytes from file descriptor
+.IR src_fd
+at offset
+.IR src_offset
+into the file
+.IR dest_fd
+at offset
+.IR dest_offset ",
+provided that both are files. This information is conveyed in a structure of
+the following form:
+.in +4n
+.nf
+
+struct file_clone_range {
+ __s64 src_fd;
+ __u64 src_offset;
+ __u64 src_length;
+ __u64 dest_offset;
+};
+
+.fi
+.in
+Clones are atomic with regards to concurrent writes, so no locks need to be
+taken to obtain a consistent cloned copy.
+
+The FICLONE ioctl clones entire files.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.PP
+.SH ERRORS
+Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following:
+.TP
+.B EXDEV
+.IR dest_fd " and " src_fd
+are not on the same mounted filesystem.
+.TP
+.B EISDIR
+One of the files is a directory and the filesystem does not support shared
+regions in directories.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+The filesystem does not support reflinking the ranges of the given files. This
+error can also appear if either file descriptor represents a device, fifo, or
+socket. Disk filesystems generally require the offset and length arguments
+to be aligned to the fundamental block size. XFS and btrfs do not support
+overlapping reflink ranges in the same file.
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+.IR src_fd
+is not open for reading;
+.IR dest_fd
+is not open for writing or is open for append-only writes; or the filesystem
+which
+.IR src_fd
+resides on does not support reflink.
+.TP
+.B EPERM
+.IR dest_fd
+is immutable.
+.TP
+.B ETXTBSY
+One of the files is a swap file. Swap files cannot share storage.
+.TP
+.B EOPNOTSUPP
+This can appear if the filesystem does not support reflinking either file
+descriptor.
+.SH NOTES
+Because a copy on write operation requires the allocation of new storage, the
+.B fallocate (2)
+operation may un-share shared blocks to guarantee that subsequent writes will
+not fail because of lack of disk space.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+This API is Linux-specific. This ioctl was previously known as
+.B BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE
+and was private to btrfs.
+.fi
+.in
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ioctl (2)
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