From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:48:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080914134859.GB21746@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080913212903.GF26128@mit.edu>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 05:29:03PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Part of the problem/frustration as we go around and round fs-devel is
> that some people would request new features to support new
> filesystems, and other people have been rejecting new features because
> it makes the interface more complicated.
>
> In fact, the previous version of the patch had a flag for compression,
> but Cristoph Hellwig objected because he claimed there were no users
> for it.
Let's make it clear, I've said to not add it unless we have users. And
What Anton brought up is exactly the reason for that - to support
encrypted extents we actually need more information in the structure.
That's why we need to have this broad and sometimes a little slow
discussion on fsdevel instead of just rushing in some flag for future
use that won't make any sense in the end.
(and btw, it's Christoph)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-14 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2008-09-13 21:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level " Anton Altaparmakov
2008-09-13 21:29 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-13 21:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-13 22:41 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-13 21:59 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-09-14 13:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-14 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-14 17:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-15 14:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-15 17:53 ` Mark Fasheh
2008-09-16 6:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-16 21:31 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-20 16:47 ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2008-09-29 1:07 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-29 21:13 ` Mark Fasheh
2008-09-29 22:10 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-14 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-14 18:01 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-14 18:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-14 19:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-15 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-16 6:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-16 22:03 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-17 14:18 ` Jörn Engel
2008-09-17 15:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-17 15:25 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-19 14:05 ` Chris Mason
2008-09-19 17:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-20 7:43 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-20 13:50 ` Chris Mason
[not found] ` <20080920135048.GA15698@think.oraclecorp.com>
2008-09-20 15:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-20 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-09 1:48 PATCH [0/4] Updated**3 fiemap patches Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <1223516913-17612-1-git-send-email-tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-09 1:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level 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
[not found] ` <1223341581-13802-2-git-send-email-tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-07 1:09 ` Theodore Tso
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
2008-10-04 2:12 ` 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
[not found] ` <48EB87DE.4090607-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-07 18:52 ` Theodore Tso
[not found] ` <20081007185219.GD15929-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>
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
2008-06-25 22:18 Mark Fasheh
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