From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kalpak Shah <Kalpak.Shah@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:47:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029194720.GC3042@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47263187.5070106@google.com>
On Oct 29, 2007 12:16 -0700, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> Reiserfs and Btrfs also use 0 to mean packed. It would be nice if there
>> was a way to indicate your-data-is-here-but-isn't-alone. But that's
>> more of a feature for the FIEMAP stuff.
>
> I hadn't heard of FIEMAP, so I went back and read the thread from
> April/May. It seems that this is a much better approach than introducing a
> FIBMAP64.
>
> What ever happened with this proposal?
We made a patch for ext4 that we need to update and push upstream. I've
just resent the spec we used in a separate email (attached to old thread)
for reference.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 23:37 [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 1/6][RFC] Keep FIBMAP from looking at negative block nrs Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 2/6][RFC] Allow FIBMAP to return EFBIG on large filesystems Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 3/6][RFC] Move FIBMAP logic Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 4/6][RFC] Attempt to plug race with truncate Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:36 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 5/6][RFC] Introduce FIBMAP64 Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:45 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 6/6][RFC] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement on FIBMAP Mike Waychison
2007-10-27 17:57 ` [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-27 21:45 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2007-10-29 14:10 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 16:30 ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 19:18 ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:46 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 20:01 ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 20:00 ` Zach Brown
2007-10-31 11:06 ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-31 16:16 ` Zach Brown
2007-10-31 17:17 ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-29 19:16 ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:47 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-10-28 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
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