From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:43:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4723DB48.60700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026233732.568575496@crlf.corp.google.com>
Mike Waychison wrote:
> The following series is meant to clean up FIBMAP paths with the eventual goal of allowing users to be able to FIBMAP their data.
Keep in mind FIBMAP is currently extremely expensive on some
filesystems, e.g. ext3. Therefore, additional filesystem-level work
would have to be done in order for this not become a DoS issue.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-28 0:43 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
2007-10-28 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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