On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:28:01PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > [fullquote removed, please get your email etiquette right or I'll stop > > responding] > > > > Sorry. I though the practice was to keep original patch in tact for review. The practice is to quote what's relevant. You generally have a lot of leeway to decide how much exactly you think fits, but a fullquote only ever makes sense when forwarding the mail to someone not previously involved with the thread. > To be fair, Clone is a fast metadata operation on xfs/btrfs/ocfs2. > I don't think we can know for sure how a future file systems will choose to > implement clone, nor can we tell for sure how any version of remote Windows CIFS > server will implement it. If it's not a fast and atomic metadata operation it must not implement clone_file_range, but should implement copy_file_range instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
