Btrfs: implement full reflink support for inline extents
There are a few cases where we don't allow cloning an inline extent into
the destination inode, returning -EOPNOTSUPP to user space. This was done
to prevent several types of file corruption and because it's not very
straightforward to deal with these cases, as they can't rely on simply
copying the inline extent between leaves. Such cases require copying the
inline extent's data into the respective page of the destination inode.
Not supporting these cases makes it harder and more cumbersome to write
applications/libraries that work on any filesystem with reflink support,
since all these cases for which btrfs fails with -EOPNOTSUPP work just
fine on xfs for example. These unsupported cases are also not documented
anywhere and explaining which exact cases fail require a bit of too
technical understanding of btrfs's internal (inline extents and when and
where can they exist in a file), so it's not really user friendly.
Also some test cases from fstests that use fsx, such as generic/522 for
example, can sporadically fail because they trigger one of these cases,
and fsx expects all operations to succeed.
This change adds supports for cloning all these cases by copying the
inline extent's data into the respective page of the destination inode.
With this change test case btrfs/112 from fstests fails because it
expects some clone operations to fail, so it will be updated. Also a
new test case that exercises all these previously unsupported cases
will be added to fstests.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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