Filesystems might have some blocksize and alignment constraints
conditioning their ability to loan up buffers (for writes).
If that is so, we could use an API to query the FS about
those values. For a copy on write & variable block size
filesystem, that natural blocksize might also depend on the
My issues have been resolved. Thanks Mahesh.
-r
Rich.Brown at Sun.COM writes:
> I'm sponsoring this case on behalf of Mahesh Siddheshwar and Chunli Zhang.
> This case proposes new interfaces to support copy reduction in the I/O path
> especially for file sharing services.
>
> Minor bindin