Re: [RFC v1 01/19] fs: Don't copy beyond the end of the file

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> On Mar 8, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:05:21PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> Since copy isn't atomic that check is never going to be reliable.
> 
> That's true for everything that COPY does.  By that logic we should
> not implement it at all (a logic that I'd fully support)


If you were to only keep CLONE then you’d lose a huge performance gain you get from server-to-server COPY. --
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