Andreas Dilger wrote: > If it is possible to use splice() to copy between two regular files then > that is great. Does anything (e.g. cp) actually use this yet? It's mentioned earlier in this thread that BTRFS has an ioctl() for copying parts of files into other files, and will share the data between both files. With a bit of plumbing, splice() could probably be persuaded to call the mechanism which BTRFS provides. -- Jamie -- 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