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Wong" , Dave Chinner , Nicolas Boichat , Ian Lance Taylor , Luis Lozano , Andreas Dilger , Olga Kornievskaia , Christoph Hellwig , ceph-devel , linux-kernel , CIFS , samba-technical , linux-fsdevel , Linux NFS Mailing List , Walter Harms Subject: [RFC v3] copy_file_range.2: Update cross-filesystem support for 5.12 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:41:05 +0100 Message-Id: <20210301144104.75545-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.1.721.g45526154a5 In-Reply-To: <20210224142307.7284-1-lhenriques@suse.de> References: <20210224142307.7284-1-lhenriques@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Linux 5.12 fixes a regression. Cross-filesystem (introduced in 5.3) copies were buggy. Move the statements documenting cross-fs to BUGS. Kernels 5.3..5.11 should be patched soon. State version information for some errors related to this. Reported-by: Luis Henriques Reported-by: Amir Goldstein Related: Cc: Greg KH Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: Steve French Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Nicolas Boichat Cc: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: Luis Lozano Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Olga Kornievskaia Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: ceph-devel Cc: linux-kernel Cc: CIFS Cc: samba-technical Cc: linux-fsdevel Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List Cc: Walter Harms Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- v3: - Don't remove some important text. - Reword BUGS. --- Hi Amir, I covered your comments. I may need to add something else after your discussion with Steve; please comment. I tried to reword BUGS so that it's as specific and understandable as I can. If you still find it not good enough, please comment :) Thanks, Alex --- man2/copy_file_range.2 | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2 index 611a39b80..1c0df3f74 100644 --- a/man2/copy_file_range.2 +++ b/man2/copy_file_range.2 @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ Out of memory. .B ENOSPC There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy. .TP +.BR EOPNOTSUPP " (since Linux 5.12)" +The filesystem does not support this operation. +.TP .B EOVERFLOW The requested source or destination range is too large to represent in the specified data types. @@ -184,10 +187,17 @@ or .I fd_out refers to an active swap file. .TP -.B EXDEV +.BR EXDEV " (before Linux 5.3)" +The files referred to by +.IR fd_in " and " fd_out +are not on the same filesystem. +.TP +.BR EXDEV " (since Linux 5.12)" The files referred to by .IR fd_in " and " fd_out -are not on the same mounted filesystem (pre Linux 5.3). +are not on the same filesystem, +and the source and target filesystems are not of the same type, +or do not support cross-filesystem copy. .SH VERSIONS The .BR copy_file_range () @@ -200,8 +210,10 @@ Areas of the API that weren't clearly defined were clarified and the API bounds are much more strictly checked than on earlier kernels. Applications should target the behaviour and requirements of 5.3 kernels. .PP -First support for cross-filesystem copies was introduced in Linux 5.3. -Older kernels will return -EXDEV when cross-filesystem copies are attempted. +Since 5.12, +cross-filesystem copies can be achieved +when both filesystems are of the same type, +and that filesystem implements support for it. .SH CONFORMING TO The .BR copy_file_range () @@ -226,6 +238,12 @@ gives filesystems an opportunity to implement "copy acceleration" techniques, such as the use of reflinks (i.e., two or more inodes that share pointers to the same copy-on-write disk blocks) or server-side-copy (in the case of NFS). +.SH BUGS +In Linux kernels 5.3 to 5.11, +cross-filesystem copies were supported by the kernel, +instead of being supported by individual filesystems. +However, on some virtual filesystems, +the call failed to copy, while still reporting success. .SH EXAMPLES .EX #define _GNU_SOURCE