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Subject: Re: UBIFS: Is it possible to get the compressed size of a file?
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:07:14 +0200
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On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 22:45 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I think FIEMAP would be a good userspace API to get this kind of
> low-level allocation information about the compressed size of data.
> For most files it would probably only need a single fiemap_extent
> to return the allocation data.

Thanks Andreas,

indeed FIEMAP sounds like a good answer to the problem.

Artem.