From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
xfs mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2, RFC] convert xfs_getbmap to take formatter functions
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:31:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021133104.GA10372@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FDD7AA.5050006@sandeen.net>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:22:50AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:24:03PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> ...
>
> >> /*
> >> - * Fcntl interface to xfs_bmapi.
> >> + * ioctl interface to xfs_bmapi.
> >> */
> >
> >> /*
> >> - * Fcntl interface to xfs_bmapi.
> >> + * ioctl interface to xfs_bmapi.
> >> */
> >
> > Well, it will be for fiemap, too. And the comment doesn't make much
> > sense either. Either remove it completely or replace it by something
> > that makes sense.
> >
>
> well aren't XFS_IOC_GETBMAP(X) and fiemap _both_ ioctl interfaces to
> xfs_bmapi?
Hmm, From the syscall point of view fiemap is indeed an ioctl, too.
But then again the point of this function isn't do anything
ioctl-related, but to allow to get a list of all extents for an inode
and format them arbitrarily.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 22:24 [PATCH 1/2, RFC] convert xfs_getbmap to take formatter functions Eric Sandeen
2008-10-21 8:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-21 13:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-21 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-10-21 15:10 ` Eric Sandeen
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