@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ regions in directories.
.TP
.B EOPNOTSUPP
This can appear if the filesystem does not support reflinking either file
-descriptor.
+descriptor, or if either file descriptor refers to special inodes.
.TP
.B EPERM
.IR dest_fd
@@ -99,21 +99,39 @@ Each deduplication operation targets
bytes in file descriptor
.IR dest_fd
at offset
-.IR logical_offset ".
+.IR dest_offset ".
The field
.IR reserved
must be zero.
+During the call,
+.IR src_fd
+must be open for reading and
+.IR dest_fd
+must be open for writing.
+For any call to this ioctl, there may not be more than 65,536
+requests attached; each request may not exceed 16MiB.
+By convention, the storage used by
+.IR src_fd
+is mapped into
+.IR dest_fd
+and the previous contents in
+.IR dest_fd
+are freed.
Upon successful completion of this ioctl, the number of bytes successfully
deduplicated is returned in
.IR bytes_deduped
and a status code for the deduplication operation is returned in
.IR status ".
-
+If even a single byte in the range does not match, the deduplication
+request will be ignored and
+.IR status
+set to
+.BR FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_DIFFERS .
The
.IR status
code is set to
-.B 0
+.B FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_SAME
for success, a negative error code in case of error, or
.B FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_DIFFERS
if the data did not match.
@@ -150,7 +168,7 @@ regions in directories.
.TP
.B EOPNOTSUPP
This can appear if the filesystem does not support deduplicating either file
-descriptor.
+descriptor, or if either file descriptor refers to special inodes.
.TP
.B EPERM
.IR dest_fd
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> --- man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2 | 2 +- man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html