Re: cross-fs copy support

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Yes, I would expect there to be problems with his modified kernel
> > for a filesystem that supports clone_file_range, because
> > vfs_copy_file_range() will clone if possible, and this should fail across
> > filesystems.
> > 
> > In general, though, I don't know for sure why we don't fall back to
> > do_splice_direct() across filesystems, although the filesystems that
> > implement their own ->copy_file_range ops may have their own,
> > further restrictions within their implementations.
> > 
> > This call /is/ documented in the manpage as only being valid for
> > files on the same filesystem, though:
> > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/copy_file_range.2.html
> 
> There was a patch to allow cross-mount copy for NFS, but it hasn't landed
> yet.

I found https://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=144138779721907&w=2 that lifts
the VFS check (part of a series that can't be easily linked to).

The lack of cross-mount reflink (based on the copy_file_ragne) is often
confusing users, there are common setups that mount subvolumes
separately and reflinking between them would require mount of the
toplevel subvolume.

If there are 2 in-kernel users of the relaxed cross-mount copy, I think
this would help to push the series forward.



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