From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:53:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461F997E.30002@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413040156.GU5967@schatzie.adilger.int>
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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2007 12:22 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>> This would say that the offset on disk can move at any time or that
>> the data is compressed or encrypted on disk thus the data is not
>> useful for direct disk access.
>
> This makes sense. Even for Reiserfs the same is true with packed tails,
> and I believe if FIBMAP is called on a tail it will migrate the tail into
> a block because this is might be a sign that the file is a kernel that
> LILO wants to boot.
Actually, reiserfs_aop_bmap() returns 0 when the requested block is in a
tail. There's a separate ioctl for unpacking them.
- -Jeff
- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 11:05 [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation Andreas Dilger
2007-04-12 11:22 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13 4:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-13 4:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-13 7:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13 14:53 ` Jeff Mahoney [this message]
2007-04-13 1:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-04-13 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-13 11:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13 18:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-04-16 8:01 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-04-18 23:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-16 11:22 ` David Chinner
2007-04-19 0:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-19 1:54 ` David Chinner
2007-04-30 22:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01 4:22 ` David Chinner
2007-05-01 4:39 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-05-01 14:20 ` David Chinner
2007-05-01 18:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 9:15 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 9:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 10:57 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 11:17 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-03 7:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-03 8:23 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 9:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-01 22:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01 18:37 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 0:06 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 8:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-29 19:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 13:57 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 20:57 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 20:57 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 22:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 17:44 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 17:11 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-30 0:11 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-30 0:11 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-30 0:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 17:44 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 22:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 17:44 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 22:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 15:40 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 22:40 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 22:40 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 22:25 ` David Chinner
2007-10-29 22:25 ` David Chinner
2007-05-01 22:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-02 2:26 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 8:23 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 8:30 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 9:48 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 9:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-19 6:23 ` Timothy Shimmin
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