On 06/08/2016 06:40 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
Mention that FICLONE, FICLONERANGE, and FIDEDUPERANGE all require both
files to reside on the same filesystem.
Thanks, Darrick. Applied.
I sees there's also some small problems with the page licenses in these
two new pages: the markup "VERBATIM" is wrong. And you don't mention
the GPL version.
Can I suggest either changing the license to the real "verbatim"
license (https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html#verbatim),
or to a GPL with version (see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html#gpl
Cheers,
Michael
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>
---
man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2 | 1 +
man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2 b/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
index 0cb1567..c6e0762 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ file appear in the
.I dest_fd
file by sharing the underlying storage, which is faster than making a separate
physical copy of the data.
+Both files must reside within the same filesystem.
If a file write should occur to a shared region,
the filesystem must ensure that the changes remain private to the file being
written.
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
index c69f8c5..44a7765 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ file appear in the
.B dest_fd
file by sharing the underlying storage if the file data is identical
("deduplication").
+Both files must reside within the same filesystem.
This reduces storage consumption by allowing the filesystem
to store one shared copy of the data.
If a file write should occur to a shared
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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