copy: drop COPY_REFLINK

Reflinking is a safe optimization whenever the source and destination are
regular, seekable files on a filesystem that supports cloning. Requiring each
caller to opt in through COPY_REFLINK adds flag plumbing without changing the
necessary fallback behavior.

Drop COPY_REFLINK, renumber the remaining flags, and have copy_bytes_full()
unconditionally try FICLONE or FICLONERANGE before entering its normal copy
loop. Isolate the clone attempt and its file-offset bookkeeping in a helper so
copy_bytes_full() only has to handle its cloned, unavailable, and error results.
A successful clone therefore completes in one operation, while an unsupported
or rejected clone falls back to progress-limited copy_file_range(), sendfile(),
or buffered copying. Keep the public reflink helpers for operations that
specifically require clone semantics.

Existing test-copy coverage exercises both bounded and unbounded regular-file
copies through copy_bytes_full().

Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer <daan@amutable.com>
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Daan De Meyer
2026-07-15 12:12:40 +02:00
committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
parent 28b1e4ea16
commit 5a12005c83
28 changed files with 191 additions and 173 deletions
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@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static int make_backup(const char *target, const char *x) {
if (r < 0)
return r;
r = copy_bytes(src, fileno(dst), UINT64_MAX, COPY_REFLINK);
r = copy_bytes(src, fileno(dst), UINT64_MAX, /* copy_flags= */ 0);
if (r < 0)
return r;