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Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/3] fs: Add vfs_reflink() and the
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker () oracle ! com>
Date: 2009-05-04 2:51:44
Message-ID: 20090504025144.GD24653 () mail ! oracle ! com
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On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:03:25AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +int vfs_reflink(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *new_dentry)
> >
> >+{
>
> Would be nice to have a little kerneldoc comment for it. Also please
> avoid the > 80 har lines
Both good points.
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_reflink);
>
> No really good reason to export this. Most vfs_ helpers are exported
> for nfsd, and I can't really see nfsd use this anytime soon.
While we're going forward with the system call, ocfs2's going to
support the ioctl for older kernels. I was planning to have mainline
just reroute the ioctl to vfs_reflink(), rather than have the ioctl
just break.
Joel
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