Re: [PATCH v2] fuse: add support for copy_file_range()

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:46:48AM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> There are several FUSE filesystems that can implement server-side copy
> or other efficient copy/duplication/clone methods. The copy_file_range()
> syscall is the standard interface that users have access to while not
> depending on external libraries that bypass FUSE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx>

NACK on this by myself, see reason further below.

> 
> ---
> v2: return ssize_t instead of long
> ---
>  fs/fuse/file.c            |  65 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/fuse/fuse_i.h          |   3 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/fuse.h | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  3 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
...
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
> index 92fa24c24c92..77330fa510f1 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
...
> @@ -792,4 +796,18 @@ struct fuse_lseek_out {
>  	uint64_t	offset;
>  };
>  
> +struct fuse_copy_file_range_in {
> +	uint64_t	fh_in;
> +	uint64_t	off_in;

It seems that libfuse has the expectation of having access to the nodeid
when a file-descriptor is passed to userspace.

>From Marcin Sulikowski in https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/pull/259:

> There is a caveat though â the kernel module change proposed in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/27/114 provides only ino_in argument
> because that is passed in the request's header (args.in.h.nodeid =
> ff_in->nodeid; in fs/fuse/fuse.c in the kernel) whereas ino_out is not
> given by the kernel to the userspace implementation. Isn't this an
> oversight in the kernel module? The lack of the inode number would
> make it impossible to create high-level interface which follows the
> libfuse's convention where the high-level callbacks are given paths to
> files which are to be modified.

So, the next version of this patch will add nodeid_out to the struct.

Niels


> +	uint64_t	fh_out;
> +	uint64_t	off_out;
> +	uint64_t	len;
> +	uint32_t	flags;
> +};
> +
> +struct fuse_copy_file_range_out {
> +	uint32_t	size;
> +	uint32_t	padding;
> +};
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_FUSE_H */
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>