On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:51:22PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:46:20PM -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote: > > > > 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. > > Yes, when the ioctl is done the file is on disk. This is more of an > accident of the implementation than a requirement, but it isn't going to > change. > > > - 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? > > I think this one was fixed by Sage, if you pull from the btrfs-unstable > git tree's master branch it should be resolved. Just did, and the two bugs that I was hitting are now fixed. Thanks a lot, Alberto -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
