Ocfs2 devel - Dec 2016 - [PATCH v4 00/11] ocfs2: wire up {clone, copy, dedupe}_range

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:42:55PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is the fourth submission of a series of patches that wire up the
> existing ocfs2 reflinking capabilities to the new(ish) VFS
> {copy,clone,dedupe}_range interface.  The first few patches hoist some
> of the reflink/dedupe prep functions into the VFS since the code is
> common to XFS and ocfs2.  Then there are fixes for some ocfs2 bugs that
> I found; and finally the last kernel patch contains the new code.
> 
> A few minor fixes to xfstests are needed to make more of the tests run;
> those have been sent separately to the fstests lists.  Some of the
> xfstests will fail because ocfs2's design does not allow sharing of
> blocks between disjoint sets of files with shared blocks.  That is to
> say, if A shares with B and C shares with D, B and C cannot be made to
> share blocks.
Merged, will be in tonight's push.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:43:25PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:42:55PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is the fourth submission of a series of patches that wire up the
> > existing ocfs2 reflinking capabilities to the new(ish) VFS
> > {copy,clone,dedupe}_range interface.  The first few patches hoist some
> > of the reflink/dedupe prep functions into the VFS since the code is
> > common to XFS and ocfs2.  Then there are fixes for some ocfs2 bugs
that
> > I found; and finally the last kernel patch contains the new code.
> > 
> > A few minor fixes to xfstests are needed to make more of the tests
run;
> > those have been sent separately to the fstests lists.  Some of the
> > xfstests will fail because ocfs2's design does not allow sharing
of
> > blocks between disjoint sets of files with shared blocks.  That is to
> > say, if A shares with B and C shares with D, B and C cannot be made to
> > share blocks.
> 
> Merged, will be in tonight's push.
... of #for-next, that is - not to Linus ;-)