Re: [PATCH] jfs: Add splice support

From: Daniel Drake
Date: Mon Oct 30 2006 - 12:35:06 EST


On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:56 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:31 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > This allows the splice() and tee() syscalls to be used with JFS.
>
> Gosh, that was easy. Why couldn't I do that? :-)
>
> Answer: I would have had to test it.
>
> I'm assuming you did?

Yep:

Created a 100mb file from /dev/urandom on an ext3 partition
Used splice-cp to copy it onto a JFS partition
Used splice-cp to copy it from that JFS partition onto another JFS
partition

I checked md5sums at all stages, seems to work fine.

Thanks!
Daniel


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