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* [PATCH 0/4] Updated fiemap patches
@ 2008-10-03 21:59 Theodore Ts'o
  2008-10-03 21:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2008-10-03 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel

Since Mark has been busy, with his agreement I've updated the fiemap
patches based on the last series of comments.  All of the patches have
been cc'ed to linux-fsdevel, and the first patch (which contains the
interface definition) has been cc'ed to Michael Kerrisk and to the new
linux-abi mailing list.

Note that this patch has gone through a very long and tortured series
of bike shed painting, and my goal is to see if we can get consensus
so we can get this merged into the 2.6.28 merge window.  If not, I
will likely push an ext4-specific ioctl to Linus, as the long and
painful process of getting a common API that everyone can agree upon
is now starting to block ext4 online defrag development.

For that reason, this patch doesn't define support for things like
compression, as this was vetoed by Cristoph Hellwig.  There is however
plenty of room for the ABI to be extended to add this later.  It is my
devout wish that this get pushed at the next merge window, and folks
who want to extended it later can provide patches to do so.  I would
rather not have an extension of the game where one set of people
complain because the interface defines some feature, and another set
of people complain because it doesn't and in the meantime, months and
months go by with no forward progress.  Thanks in advance...

						- Ted



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* PATCH [0/4] Updated**3 fiemap patches
@ 2008-10-09  1:48 Theodore Ts'o
  2008-10-09  1:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2008-10-09  1:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel

These patches updates the name and definition of the
FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED flag (formerly FIEMAP_EXTENT_NO_UNMOUNTED_IO).

At this point I believe (hope!) that we have consensus that this patch
series is ready for submission to mainline.

       					- Ted



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* PATCH [0/4] Updated**2 fiemap patches
@ 2008-10-07  1:06 Theodore Ts'o
  2008-10-07  1:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2008-10-07  1:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel

This the second update of the fiemap patches, which integrates the
changes and typographical fixups as suggested by Jim Owens.  In
particular, FIEMAP_EXTENT_NO_MOUNTED_IO was renamed to what I had
intended, but mistyped, FIEMAP_EXTENT_NO_UNMOUNTED_IO, and the
explanation of that flag has been clarified.

Hopefully folks are happy with this.  I plan to push this to Linus
when the next merge window opens up.

					- Ted



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* YET ANOTHER resend of the fiemap patches
@ 2008-09-13 18:47 Theodore Ts'o
  2008-09-13 18:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2008-09-13 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: Mark Fasheh, linux-ext4


So the last round of the on-going round-and-round of the FIEMAP patches
went to the linux-ext4 mailing list, because of a query there about why
these patches had been stalled for so long.  This resulted in a private
set of e-mails attacking an ext4 developer and putting forward a
conspiracy theory that these patches were trying to be snuck in, despite
the fact that they have been sent on linux-fsdevel at least 4 times
already.

Mark has at this point I believe answered all of Christoph Hellwig's
demands, and put forward a request to Andrew Morton to include them in
-mm (minus the ext4 patch, since the version he had no longer compiled).

As of this writing, Andrew has not put them into -mm, I suspect because
he perceives there is still controversies around these patches, despite
the fact that most of the e-mails and time wasted has been over
individual bitflags and other really tiny nit-picky details.  So I am
re-sending these patches out for review on linux-fsdevel.  The first
three patches are taken from Mark's fiemap branch on the ocfs2 branch.
The last patch is an updated ext4 patch from the ext4 patch queue, which
is provided so that folks can see that the fiemap patches work just fine
on ext4.

Given that filesystem designers seem to love nit-picking tiny details,
and I am personally starting to lose patience, if the fiemap patches
stalls any further, my plan is to take a page from the XFS playbook and
simply take the ext4-fiemap patch and implement an ext4-specific ioctl.
If and when the linux-fsdevel community manages come to consensus on the
fiemap patches, whether it happens in 2.6.28 or Linux 2.6.87, it will be
easy enough to wire the ext4 support to the generic fiemap ioctl.

	"It's *just* an ioctl, folks" --- Andreas Dilger

Yours disgustedly,

						- Ted


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2008-10-03 21:59 [PATCH 0/4] Updated fiemap patches Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-03 21:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-03 21:59   ` [PATCH 2/4] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-03 21:59     ` [PATCH 3/4] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-03 21:59       ` [PATCH 4/4] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-06 11:35       ` [PATCH 3/4] generic block based fiemap implementation steve
2008-10-06 21:14         ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-07  8:14           ` steve
2008-10-04  2:12   ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Tso
2008-10-06 18:15     ` jim owens
2008-10-06 21:07       ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-07 10:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 10:56           ` Andreas Dilger
2008-10-07 12:52             ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-07 13:00           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-10-07 13:02             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 13:24               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-10-07 13:28                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 15:45                   ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-07 16:01                     ` jim owens
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2008-10-07 18:52                         ` Theodore Tso
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2008-10-07 20:31                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 13:48             ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-07 23:43               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-10-09 20:40                 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-10-06 13:07   ` steve
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2008-10-09  1:48 PATCH [0/4] Updated**3 fiemap patches Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09  1:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09  1:48   ` [PATCH 2/4] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09  1:48     ` [PATCH 3/4] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09  1:48       ` [PATCH 4/4] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07  1:06 PATCH [0/4] Updated**2 fiemap patches Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07  1:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07  1:06   ` [PATCH 2/4] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07  1:06     ` [PATCH 3/4] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07  1:06       ` [PATCH 4/4] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-09-13 18:47 YET ANOTHER resend of the fiemap patches Theodore Ts'o
2008-09-13 18:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-09-13 18:49   ` [PATCH 2/4] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-09-13 18:49     ` [PATCH 3/4] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-09-13 18:49       ` [PATCH 4/4] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o

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