Re: What are equivalents of Linux ioctl functions FICLONE and FICLONERANGE ?

Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On Linux files can be copied with:
> > ioctl(destFd, FICLONE, srcFd)
> > What would be the equivalent of this on FreeBSD?
> That would be copy_file_range(), but as on Linux, it does only
> offer any benefit on filesystems that support copy-on-write or
> potentially on network attached storage.

Even without filesystem support, it still avoids copying the contents of
the file out to user space, so it's faster than a regular copy.

DES
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