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Darrick J. Wong authored
Introduce a new ioctl to handle exchanging ranges of bytes between files. The goal here is to perform the exchange atomically with respect to applications -- either they see the file contents before the exchange or they see that A-B is now B-A, even if the kernel crashes. My original goal with all this code was to make it so that online repair can build a replacement directory or xattr structure in a temporary file and commit the repair by atomically exchanging all the data blocks between the two files. However, I needed a way to test this mechanism thoroughly, so I've been evolving an ioctl interface since then. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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