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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Gopala Krishna <gopalakrishna.n.m@gmail.com>
Cc: 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 02:25:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ejchkzv7.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d711080c0801152325g3d57965dm92e3687a5f98c5f6@mail.gmail.com> (Gopala Krishna's message of "Wed\, 16 Jan 2008 12\:55\:17 +0530")

"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.

It won't give you information about metadata blocks though.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17  1:24 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 [this message]
2008-01-17  2:44                 ` David Chinner

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