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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:56:20 -0600
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On Oct 07, 2008  06:12 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:07:06PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > +* FIEMAP_EXTENT_NO_UNMOUNTED_IO
> 
> I think the point we're trying to get down to is that this is not just a
> normal block that you can access using a block number but some
> complicated encoding scheme.  Maybe
> 
> * FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED

I like this name much better than the cumbersome double-negative
"NO_UNMOUNTED_IO" that is _still_ not any more clear than the
previous proposals.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.