linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] fiemap support for ext3

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Message-id: <20080424025803.GM3095@webber.adilger.int>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:58:03 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, sandeen@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fiemap support for ext3

On Apr 23, 2008  15:39 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Here is my reworked fiemap patch for ext3.  The generic fiemap handler
> takes the get_block_t from the filesystem and does the fiemap that way,
> so then adding ext2 support should be a snap, as well as any other fs
> that wants to use this.

Ah, one other point is that this should also be used by ext4 to map inodes
that are not in extents format, replacing the -EOPNOTSUPP return in that
case.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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