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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:50:39 +0100
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH][try6] VFS: new want_holesize and
 got_holesize buffer_head flags for fiemap
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Hi,

On 22/10/14 07:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This looks like a big indicator that get_blocks is the wrong
> interface for fiemap.
>

The question is then, what a better interface would look like? We could 
have "get_hole" as an extra operation I suppose. Not sure that I really 
see why thats better or worse than the extra flag at the moment? or did 
you have something else in mind?

Steve.