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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] [RFC] I/O Hints
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:55:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080606125505.GB19246@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605191935.GZ2961@webber.adilger.int>

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Is there scope to extend FIEMAP to pass this sort of information?
> 
> I have ideas in that direction, but have been gun-shy about presenting
> them until the existing controversy dies down...  I think it is actually
> fairly straight forward to enhance FIEMAP to allow arbitrary file layouts
> to be returned to an application.

>From the pipe2(), dup3() saga: just remember to include room for a
"flags" argument somewhere :-)

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05  5:22 [PATCH 0 of 3] [RFC] I/O Hints Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-05  5:22 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] block: Export I/O hints for block devices and partitions Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-05 14:42   ` James Bottomley
2008-06-06  1:18     ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-06 14:21   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-05  5:22 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] md: Export preferred I/O sizes and physical alignment Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-05  5:22 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] sd: Export preferred I/O sizes Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-05 11:25   ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-05  6:27 ` [PATCH 0 of 3] [RFC] I/O Hints Andreas Dilger
2008-06-05 10:32   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-05 12:35   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-05 17:02     ` Dan Williams
2008-06-06  1:03   ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-06 14:02     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-06 16:48       ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-09 10:47         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-10  2:17           ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-05 10:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-05 19:19   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-06-06 12:55     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-06-06  1:16   ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-06  4:51     ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-06 16:53       ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07 20:54         ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-09 15:05           ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-06 12:52     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-06 14:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-06 16:56   ` Martin K. Petersen

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