[Samba] Samba and BTRFS server-side copy

[Saint Germain]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:57:13 -0700, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
wrote :

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 01:42:35AM +0200, Saint Germain via samba
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:27:05 -0700, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> > > if you see any of these then it happened.
> > 
> > Ok I understand how to check that it happened, but how can I make
> > sure that it doesn't happen ?
> > How can I ensure that clone range request sizes are integer
> > divisible by 4096 on my server ?
> > Should I change something on the BTRFS filesystem, or shift my
> > partition or something ?
> 
> Nope. It's not a critical error. In smbclient, scopy
> requests a copy of the entire filesize. The libsmbclient
> layer splits this into copychunk requests of default
> size 1mb - which is certainly integer divisible by
> 4096.
> 
> The only time you'll get the server copy is if the
> last chunk isn't divisible by 4096. It's not a problem.

Thank you very much for all the help and explanations.
It's much clearer now.

So if I understand correctly, as long as the client send the
FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK, it should be ok.

The FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK instructions seems to be included in SMB2 in
smbclient starting from version 4.3.

On linux, most current utilities like Nautilus (gvfs) still use SMB1 to
connect, so there is no chance to trigger a server-side copy.

On Mac, it seems to be using SMB3, so it should be ok.

On Windows, I'll have to check.

Thanks for your help !