From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Gopala Krishna <gopalakrishna.n.m@gmail.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
nscott@aconex.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Question related to XFS sync , especially fsync
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:44:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080117024443.GG155259@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73ejchkzv7.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:25:00AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Gopala Krishna" <gopalakrishna.n.m@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > we need to get information about
> > file like it's extent information and associated block numbers etc.
> To
> > extract these there is no system call
>
> Actually there is the FIOBMAP ioctl for data blocks. e.g. it's used by
> boot loaders like lilo to create a block map to read a file without
> knowledge of the file system. Should work on all file systems that
> support lilo.
On XFS, you should use XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX. It's much faster
and returns lots more information than FIOBMAP. It can also
be used on the attribute fork of the inode, and it works on
directories as well.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-14 12:14 Question related to XFS sync , especially fsync Gopala Krishna
2008-01-14 12:24 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-14 12:25 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-14 14:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-14 14:32 ` Olaf Frączyk
2008-01-14 14:43 ` ***** SUSPECTED SPAM ***** " Matthias Schniedermeyer
2008-01-14 17:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-01-14 22:42 ` David Chinner
2008-01-15 13:44 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-15 15:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-15 22:26 ` Nathan Scott
2008-01-16 6:43 ` Gopala Krishna
[not found] ` <20080116064840.GA5725@puku.stupidest.org>
2008-01-16 7:25 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-16 7:52 ` Iustin Pop
2008-01-16 8:11 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-16 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-16 9:00 ` Gopala Krishna
2008-01-16 11:52 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-01-16 21:17 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-01-16 23:38 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-01-17 1:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-17 2:44 ` David Chinner [this message]
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