Re: [PATCH] btrfs: allow clone of an arbitrary file range

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On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:32 -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch adds an additional CLONE_RANGE ioctl to clone an arbitrary 
> (block-aligned) file range to another file.  The original CLONE ioctl 
> becomes a special case of cloning the entire file range.  The logic is a 
> bit more complex now since ranges may be cloned to different offsets, and 
> because we may only be cloning the beginning or end of a particular extent 
> or checksum item.
> 

Just FYI, I've pushed this out to the unstable tree.   Please let me
know if you have any problems using it.

-chris


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