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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:31:49 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@aetern.org>
Cc:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 643336549081 - main - If copy_file_range(2) fails with EXDEV, use fall-back.
Message-ID:  <ZCwKpT54qUU8wi62@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <872bff80-a306-a5b8-dbc1-cf54be85fa81@aetern.org>
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Yuri wrote:
> Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > On 4/4/23, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >> --------
> >> Alexey Dokuchaev writes:
> >>
> >>> Okay, but did it leave an empty file, I wonder?
> >>
> >> I didn't check, but it probably would, because cp(1) must have opened
> >> and created the destination in order to call copy_file_range(2).
> >>
> >> PS: I'll note that EXDEV is not a documented return value from
> >> copy_file_range(2), and my surprise that cp(1) did not revert
> >> to the fall-back, no matter why copy_file_range(2) failed.
> > 
> > that's a new one and should not be happening, something is borked in
> > the kernel -- cross device copies *are* supported
> > 
> > i'll look into it later
> 
> Likely has to do with openzfs merge issues reported by Cy just above?

If cp(1) producing empty files for me after commit c98a764c681f is also
EXDEV-related (which I'm not sure as of yet), it could be that recent
OpenZFS merely exposed an earlier bug (c98a764c681f is from Jan 2 2021).
And I didn't have any ZFS on that machine.

./danfe



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