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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Benjamin Wirth <Benjamin.Wirth@winmagic.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: development APIs for used/free blocks information
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:41:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427234108.GK26977@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97A4F433DEE099488FE21C1718A641D2139E972E@wmsexchsvr01.winmagic.local>

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:54:24PM +0000, Benjamin Wirth wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> And I apologize, reading back my email I wasn't clear about what I
> was looking for.
> 
> I want to be able to query which blocks are free or used, not just
> the counts. In EXT I was able to use ext2fs_test_block_bitmap()
> for that. XFS has a BTree with the free extents ordered by block
> number which I was hoping to be able to access from user-space,
> but couldn't find any APIs for it (or the headers containing the
> structure definitions) in the xfsprogs-devel package. Am I trying
> to do something impossible here?

There are prototypes that need a bit of polishing to complete:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-04/msg00633.html

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26 20:51 development APIs for used/free blocks information Benjamin Wirth
2016-04-26 21:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-04-26 22:21 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-26 22:51   ` Eric Sandeen
2016-04-26 23:09     ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-27 12:54   ` Benjamin Wirth
2016-04-27 23:41     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-06-16 19:57       ` Benjamin Wirth

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