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copy_file_range.2: New page documenting copy_file_range()
authorAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:18:21 +0000 (16:18 -0500)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:15:24 +0000 (10:15 +0100)
commit903b48079cae9367e89be8391489f53576a7c38f
treea932d84db887eb4af3861aa63572fe4d7e153b11
parentc72249c562e44c5ddb4251641d8617e78064b1b4
copy_file_range.2: New page documenting copy_file_range()

copy_file_range() is a new system call for copying ranges of data
completely in the kernel.  This gives filesystems an opportunity to
implement some kind of "copy acceleration", such as reflinks or
server-side-copy (in the case of NFS).

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man2/copy_file_range.2 [new file with mode: 0644]
man2/splice.2