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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:37:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203193756.GA5254@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602032008580.16335@dhcppc0>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:23:51PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

> NTFS, though not the Linux driver. Both XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX and
> FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGE are much more efficient than
> SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA (and let's forget about FIBMAP).

If there was something consistent across all filesystems albeit it
different to SEEK_HOLE & SEEK_DATA those could be implemented in
glibc.

Given we've gotten along fine without them for some time I don't see
that a little bit of thought and taking some time to chew over this
will do any harm.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-02  9:03 SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA linux
2006-02-03 18:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-02-03 18:23   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2006-02-03 19:37     ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2006-02-03 22:00     ` Bryan Henderson
2006-02-03 23:41       ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2006-02-03 23:53       ` Chris Wedgwood

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