Re: [PATCH] splice support #2

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:51:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> 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.

Of course the code would be useable, same as current generic_file_* code
is useable with small wrappers.

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