FIDEDUPERANGE(2const) FIDEDUPERANGE(2const)
NAME
FIDEDUPERANGE - share some the data of one file with another file
LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/fs.h> /* Definition of FIDEDUPERANGE and
FILE_DEDUPE_* constants*/
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
int ioctl(int src_fd, FIDEDUPERANGE, struct file_dedupe_range *arg);
DESCRIPTION
If a filesystem supports files sharing physical storage between multiple
files, this ioctl(2) operation can be used to make some of the data in
the src_fd file appear in the dest_fd file by sharing the underlying
storage if the file data is identical ("deduplication"). Both files
must reside within the same filesystem. This reduces storage consump-
tion by allowing the filesystem to store one shared copy of the data.
If a file write should occur to a shared region, the filesystem must en-
sure that the changes remain private to the file being written. This
behavior is commonly referred to as "copy on write".
This ioctl performs the "compare and share if identical" operation on up
to src_length bytes from file descriptor src_fd at offset src_offset.
This information is conveyed in a structure of the following form:
struct file_dedupe_range {
__u64 src_offset;
__u64 src_length;
__u16 dest_count;
__u16 reserved1;
__u32 reserved2;
struct file_dedupe_range_info info[0];
};
Deduplication is atomic with regards to concurrent writes, so no locks
need to be taken to obtain a consistent deduplicated copy.
The fields reserved1 and reserved2 must be zero.
Destinations for the deduplication operation are conveyed in the array
at the end of the structure. The number of destinations is given in
dest_count, and the destination information is conveyed in the following
form:
struct file_dedupe_range_info {
__s64 dest_fd;
__u64 dest_offset;
__u64 bytes_deduped;
__s32 status;
__u32 reserved;
};
Each deduplication operation targets src_length bytes in file descriptor
dest_fd at offset dest_offset. The field reserved must be zero. During
the call, src_fd must be open for reading and dest_fd must be open for
writing. The combined size of the struct file_dedupe_range and the
struct file_dedupe_range_info array must not exceed the system page
size. The maximum size of src_length is filesystem dependent and is
typically 16 MiB. This limit will be enforced silently by the filesys-
tem. By convention, the storage used by src_fd is mapped into dest_fd
and the previous contents in dest_fd are freed.
Upon successful completion of this ioctl, the number of bytes success-
fully deduplicated is returned in bytes_deduped and a status code for
the deduplication operation is returned in status. If even a single
byte in the range does not match, the deduplication operation request
will be ignored and status set to FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_DIFFERS. The status
code is set to FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_SAME for success, a negative error code
in case of error, or FILE_DEDUPE_RANGE_DIFFERS if the data did not
match.
RETURN VALUE
On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Possible errors include (but are not limited to) the following:
EBADF src_fd is not open for reading; dest_fd is not open for writing
or is open for append-only writes; or the filesystem which src_fd
resides on does not support deduplication.
EINVAL The filesystem does not support deduplicating the ranges of the
given files. This error can also appear if either file descrip-
tor represents a device, FIFO, or socket. Disk filesystems gen-
erally require the offset and length arguments to be aligned to
the fundamental block size. Neither Btrfs nor XFS support over-
lapping deduplication ranges in the same file.
EISDIR One of the files is a directory and the filesystem does not sup-
port shared regions in directories.
ENOMEM The kernel was unable to allocate sufficient memory to perform
the operation or dest_count is so large that the input argument
description spans more than a single page of memory.
EOPNOTSUPP
This can appear if the filesystem does not support deduplicating
either file descriptor, or if either file descriptor refers to
special inodes.
EPERM dest_fd is immutable.
ETXTBSY
One of the files is a swap file. Swap files cannot share stor-
age.
EXDEV dest_fd and src_fd are not on the same mounted filesystem.
VERSIONS
Some filesystems may limit the amount of data that can be deduplicated
in a single call.
STANDARDS
Linux.
HISTORY
Linux 4.5.
It was previously known as BTRFS_IOC_FILE_EXTENT_SAME and was private to
Btrfs.
NOTES
Because a copy-on-write operation requires the allocation of new stor-
age, the fallocate(2) operation may unshare shared blocks to guarantee
that subsequent writes will not fail because of lack of disk space.
SEE ALSO
ioctl(2)
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