On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote: > This is a proposal to allow 64bit count to copy and return as > a result of a copy_file_range. No attempt was made to share code > with the 32bit function because 32bit interface should probably > get depreciated. > > Why use 64bit? Current uses of 32bit are by clone_file_range() > which could use 64bit count and NFS copy_file_range also supports > 64bit count value. Please provide a very good use case that actually matters to a large portion of the Linux users. > Also with this proposal off-the-bet allow the userland to copy > between different mount points. Totally different issue that we've discussed N times. Trying to sneak it in behind peoples backs isn't going to improve the situation in any way.
