Re: [PATCH 1/1] man-page: copy_file_range(2) allow for cross-device copies

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:12:40PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > @@ -131,7 +132,8 @@ There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy.
> >  .B EXDEV
> >  The files referred to by
> >  .IR file_in " and " file_out
> > -are not on the same mounted filesystem.
> > +are not on the same mounted filesystem when the kernel does not support
> > +cross device file copy.
> 
> Kernel can support cross device file copy, the filesystem may not.
> 
> EXDEV
> 	One of the files specified by file_in and file_out are on a
> 	filesystem that does not support cross device copies.

I mentioned this in my last review, and Olga pointed out that one of
the changes in this patch means the kernel will do the copy using
do_splice_direct if the filesystem doesn't support cross-device copying.
We should keep this error documented for those on old kernels, but the
kernel will never return -EXDEV any more.



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