Re: [PATCH 1/1] xfs: use reflink to assist unaligned copy_file_range calls

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 07:37:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a copy_file_range handler to XFS so that we can accelerate file
> copies with reflink when the source and destination ranges are not
> block-aligned.  We'll use the generic pagecache copy to handle the
> unaligned edges and attempt to reflink the middle.

Isn't this something we could better handle in the VFS (or a generic
helper) so that all file systems that support reflink could benefit?



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