Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Fiemap, an extent mapping ioctl

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:21:21AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Here I agree.  HSM is a generic enough concept, and I think this
> > interface's API w.r.t. HSM is well-enough defined that there's no reason
> > not to go ahead & put it in now, IMHO.
> 
> But there is no such thing as HSM support anywher near mainline.  Call
> me a dickhead, but I'm 100% against adding anything helping HSM until
> people get their act together to actually add HSM support.  It's
> something really useful that we should have, and not something that
> should be in really grotty out of tree codebases.

	I would love to see HSM in mainline too, but this is a single
flag that belongs in a well-defined interface.  It isn't the place to
fight over.

Joel

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