On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Madan, Anshul wrote: > Requesting Attendance: > > Trond Myklebust, James Lentini and Anshul Madan I (Joel Becker ) would like to request attendance to join in this conversation. I'm the original proposer of reflink(2). > This topic has been discussed both on Linux development mailing lists > [1] and at previous LSF summits. Joel Becker originally proposed a > syscall called reflink() that was specific to copying an inode to a > copy-on-write snapshot. Since then, the need for a generic copy > interface that encompassed the reflink semantics as well as less > restrictive ones has been recognized based on discussion between Linus > Torvalds and Joel. My last proposal for the copyfile(2) interface is reference [2]. I think it is a good starting point, but I'm very interested in what the network filesystem community has to say. NFS's server copy capability is something I definitely had in mind. > [1] Relevant posts: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04347.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04395.html Joel -- "Reader, suppose you were and idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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
