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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Bhagi rathi <jahnu77@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill BMAPI_UNWRITTEN
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:02:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070910120206.GB3666@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc7060690709091234r115e793p9cc491104862a5cd@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:04:55AM +0530, Bhagi rathi wrote:
> The reason for eliminating BMAPI_UNWRITTEN is not clear. It is ideal to keep
> all the block map
> interfaces and information to go through xfs_iomap, xfs_bmapi functionality.

Despit it's name xfs_iomap_write_unwritten is not a block map interface.
Just take a look at the code, it does not use the block allocator data
structures at all, and it does not do the central xfs_bmapi call
(it uses xfs_bmapi later on but in very different ways).

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-10 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-09 15:41 [PATCH] kill BMAPI_UNWRITTEN Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-09 19:34 ` Bhagi rathi
2007-09-10 12:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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