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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-04-20 09:49:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-04-20 17:11:15 +0200 |
| commit | 9bcd045f812a75cf96ba392bc45529422f87c088 (patch) | |
| tree | eb353fe148a01aac85c8ad5965e800dc12534283 /src/extent-scan.c | |
| parent | 48306b83bececcce14d688e18bd84ee9861e503e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9bcd045f812a75cf96ba392bc45529422f87c088.tar.xz | |
copy: always use FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC, for now
* src/extent-scan.c (extent_need_sync): Always return true,
to make the sole caller always use FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC.
This will doubtless have an undesirable performance impact,
but we'll mitigate that shortly, by using extent_copy only on
files with holes.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/extent-scan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/extent-scan.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/extent-scan.c b/src/extent-scan.c index da7eb9d6e..596e7f791 100644 --- a/src/extent-scan.c +++ b/src/extent-scan.c @@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ static bool extent_need_sync (void) { + /* For now always return true, to be on the safe side. + If/when FIEMAP semantics are well defined (before SEEK_HOLE support + is usable) and kernels implementing them are in use, we may relax + this once again. */ + return true; + +#if FIEMAP_BEHAVIOR_IS_DEFINED_AND_USABLE static int need_sync = -1; if (need_sync == -1) @@ -57,6 +64,7 @@ extent_need_sync (void) } return need_sync; +#endif } /* Allocate space for struct extent_scan, initialize the entries if |