Hi!
Out of curiosity for btrfs, I'm modifying a project of mine
(http://blitiri.com.ar/p/libjio) to use the clone range ioctl, and I've got a
couple of questions. I thought this would be the place to ask them, I hope you
don't mind:
- Once the ioctl() returns successfully, is data supposed to be on the disk,
or should I sync it manually (fdatasync()/sync_file_range())? From a quick
peek at the code it seems the former, but it'd be nice to get confirmation.
- I've hit a couple of bugs (2.6.31's fs/btrfs/file.c:528, for example);
should I take a look and report them, or this code is not expected to work
yet?
- Are there any special considerations an application should take when using
it?
- Since I need to use block-aligned offsets, how can I find out the
appropriate block size for a given file without being root? I've hardcoded
it to 4k for the time being, but I couldn't find out how to ask the
filesystem except for the BLKGETBSZ, which requires being root. I'm
obviously ok with a btrfs-only solution.
If anyone could answer any of these (or point me to the relevant code), I'd
really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot,
Alberto
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