Re: [PATCH] splice support #2

[Andrew Morton]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> splice() may not be suitable for such filesystems.

OK, splice() cuts in at the file_operations level, so sych a clustered
filesystem _could_ implement it, but none of the code we have there will be
usable by it.  If the operations in splice.c were to operate at the
file_operations level (->read, ->write) then probably they could be used
thusly.

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