Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:33:32PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Spam wrote:
> >   How  so?  The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
> >   copying  should  also  know  to  copy  everything, otherwise you can
> >   implement  everything  into  applications  and  just  skip the whole
> >   filesystem part.
>
> UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
> manually.
couldn't sendfile(2) be used for that ?
perhaps a flag parameter could be added to sendfile(2) which specifies
whether to copy _all_ metadata if both fd's correspond to files, something
like either O_METADATA or O_NOMETADATA

--
Stelian Ionescu aka fe[nl]ix

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/