btrfs: offline dedupe

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This patch adds an ioctl, BTRFS_IOC_FILE_EXTENT_SAME which will try to
de-duplicate a list of extents across a range of files.

Internally, the ioctl re-uses code from the clone ioctl. This avoids
rewriting a large chunk of extent handling code.

Userspace passes in an array of file, offset pairs along with a length
argument. The ioctl will then (for each dedupe) do a byte-by-byte comparison
of the user data before deduping the extent. Status and number of bytes
deduped are returned for each operation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>

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Mark Fasheh 2013-08-06 11:42:51 -07:00 • committed by Chris Mason

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include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h

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