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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	P?draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	coreutils@gnu.org, Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:16:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415171629.GA9088@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjtjq4ir.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:53:48AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Can you or anyone else point to authoritative documentation
> (or even a summary of those "discussions") of FIEMAP semantics?

A large part of the problem is that there's none and the semantics
is a hode-podge of random flags that mostly make little sense
outside of fs developers debugging the layout that we created.  The
closest to a description is Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
in the kernel tree, but that doesn't document most of the delicate
points.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110414102608.GA1678@x4.trippels.de>
     [not found] ` <20110414120635.GB1678@x4.trippels.de>
     [not found]   ` <20110414140222.GB1679@x4.trippels.de>
     [not found]     ` <20110414140222.GB1679-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 14:59       ` Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?) Pádraig Brady
     [not found]         ` <4DA70BD3.1070409-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 15:50           ` Eric Sandeen
     [not found]             ` <4DA717B2.3020305-+82itfer+wXR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 15:52               ` Pádraig Brady
2011-04-14 15:56                 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:03                   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:14                     ` Eric Sandeen
     [not found]                     ` <20110414160343.GA12787-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 16:21                       ` Yongqiang Yang
     [not found]                         ` <BANLkTimRxvBMp9M7zwiUY_UmmFOY5N58+A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 16:28                           ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:31                             ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:48                               ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:49                                 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:04                   ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-14 16:10                     ` Yongqiang Yang
     [not found]                       ` <BANLkTimoLeWMJgNFGW+zdeUeJyZ-_+8fMQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-05 11:29                         ` Pádraig Brady
2011-05-05 11:47                           ` Yongqiang Yang
     [not found]                 ` <4DA7182B.8050409-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 17:27                   ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-14 19:13                     ` Pádraig Brady
     [not found]                     ` <878vvcspz0.fsf-CybKA8TIZ99x3y/oJEDuiw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 19:39                       ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-14 22:59             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-14 23:29               ` Pádraig Brady
2011-04-15  0:09                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15  5:01                   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16  0:50                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-16  5:11                       ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16 12:21                         ` Theodore Tso
2011-04-18  0:40                           ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-18  2:45                             ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-19  1:58                               ` Yongqiang Yang
     [not found]                                 ` <BANLkTin=WEpSf6ddiOMNMOpCPP-wiEttSw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19  2:59                                   ` Ted Ts'o
     [not found]                                     ` <20110419025949.GA3030-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19  3:05                                       ` Eric Sandeen
     [not found]                                         ` <4DACFBEB.9040909-+82itfer+wXR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-21 20:12                                           ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-19  3:30                                     ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19  4:14                                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19  5:27                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-19  3:44                                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19  6:53                                   ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19  7:45                                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19  8:11                                       ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19 14:05                                         ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-19 14:09                                       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-19 14:13                                         ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-19 16:01                                           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-20  1:53                                             ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-20 15:21                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-20 17:21                                               ` Ted Ts'o
     [not found]                                         ` <20110419140909.GD3030-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19 21:08                                           ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-20 15:29                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-16  6:05                       ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-18  0:35                         ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15  8:53                   ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-15 17:16                     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]                       ` <20110415171629.GA9088-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-15 17:24                         ` Eric Blake
2011-04-15 17:26                           ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                             ` <20110415172603.GA20086-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-15 22:28                               ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16  0:25                                 ` Dave Chinner
     [not found] ` <20110414102608.GA1678-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-20 14:39   ` Jim Meyering
     [not found]     ` <87d3khugv1.fsf-CybKA8TIZ99x3y/oJEDuiw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-21 20:01       ` Jim Meyering

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