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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:53:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461F997E.30002@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413040156.GU5967@schatzie.adilger.int>

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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2007  12:22 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>> This would say that the offset on disk can move at any time or that  
>> the data is compressed or encrypted on disk thus the data is not  
>> useful for direct disk access.
> 
> This makes sense.  Even for Reiserfs the same is true with packed tails,
> and I believe if FIBMAP is called on a tail it will migrate the tail into
> a block because this is might be a sign that the file is a kernel that
> LILO wants to boot.

Actually, reiserfs_aop_bmap() returns 0 when the requested block is in a
tail. There's a separate ioctl for unpacking them.

- -Jeff

- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 11:05 [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation Andreas Dilger
2007-04-12 11:22 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13  4:01   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-13  7:46     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13 14:53     ` Jeff Mahoney [this message]
2007-04-13  1:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-04-13 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-13 11:38   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-13 18:55     ` Nicholas Miell
2007-04-16  8:01 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-04-18 23:03   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-16 11:22 ` David Chinner
2007-04-19  0:21   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-19  1:54     ` David Chinner
2007-04-30 22:44       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01  4:22         ` David Chinner
2007-05-01  4:39           ` Nicholas Miell
2007-05-01 14:20             ` David Chinner
2007-05-01 18:46               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02  9:15                 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02  9:36                   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02 10:57                     ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 11:17                       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-03  7:49                       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-03  8:23                         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02  9:45                   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-01 22:32               ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01 18:37           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02  0:06             ` David Chinner
2007-05-02  8:16               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-29 19:45                 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 20:57                   ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-29 22:13                     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 22:29                       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 22:40                         ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-30  0:11                       ` Mark Fasheh
2007-10-30  0:25                         ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-29 22:25                   ` David Chinner
2007-05-01 22:30           ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-02  2:26             ` David Chinner
2007-05-02  8:23             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02  8:30               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-02  9:48               ` David Chinner
2007-05-02  9:56                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-04-19  6:23     ` Timothy Shimmin

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