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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:54:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909165405.GQ21071@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909165005.GA24816@infradead.org>

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:50:05PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Well, if you think setting a flag is a good interface to convert to
> extents, then do it all the way and allow setting the extent
> flag in the kernel through FS_IOC_SETFLAGS instead of having an
> interface schism.

Thanks, that's a good idea.  It won't help people on older kernels,
but it probably is the right answer.

Regards,

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09  9:12 [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-09 12:36   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 13:43   ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 14:09     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 14:39       ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 16:28         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 16:47           ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 16:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-09 16:54       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-12  9:04 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-12  9:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-12  9:27   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-12 15:26     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-12  9:31   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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