On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > If copy_file_range performs a copy using splice, it converts holes > to zeros. This effort primarily changes this behavior to create > holes when it is possible. > > Even if copy_file_range() or clone_file_range() does not work for different > mounted filesystems, We should be able to splice files if they do not > belong the same super_block. > > Changes since v1: > - Fixed bug when hole/data offset is farther than len Please specify how you tested this work. Did you run the xfstests generic/copy tests that Anna wrote? If the tests caught your bugs - good, if they didn't, please write more tests to cover the issues you found. One thing I do not see in the existing tests is coverage for the trivial case of "only holes" (i.e. touch x; truncate -s 10 x). Thanks, Amir. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
