> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html