On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 4:38 PM Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 03:54:48PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 10:27:26AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > > If you can't tell from userspace that a file has data in it other > > > than by calling read() on it, then you can't use cfr on it. > > > > I don't know how to do that, Dave. :) > > If stat returns a non-zero size, then userspace knows it has at > least that much data in it, whether it be zeros or previously > written data. cfr will copy that data. The special zero length > regular pipe files fail this simple "how much data is there to copy > in this file" check...
This suggests that if the Go standard library sees that copy_file_range reads zero bytes, we should assume that it failed, and should use the fallback path as though copy_file_range returned EOPNOTSUPP or EINVAL. This will cause an extra system call for an empty file, but as long as copy_file_range does not return an error for cases that it does not support we are going to need an extra system call anyhow. Does that seem like a possible mitigation? That is, are there cases where copy_file_range will fail to do a correct copy, and will return success, and will not return zero? Ian
