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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:50:05 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
adilger@....com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:43:47AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The alternate is to create an entire new program (e4migrate) just to
> trigger a single ioctl. The reality is this is probably going to more
> used by ext4 developers than anybody else, since it's rare that you
> would want to convert a single file from using indrect blocks to using
> extents. In general, most users/system administrators will want to
> convert the entire filesystem; eventually this will probably be done
> via some combination with the userspace program to trigger online
> defrag, but this was just a stopgap measure to allow us to more easily
> exercise the kernel code more than anything else.
>
> So given that this is only to enable extents on a single file, "chattr
> +e file" is very much in line with the rest of the chattr interface
> for setting other flags.
Well, if you think setting a flag is a good interface to convert to
extents, then do it all the way and allow setting the extent
flag in the kernel through FS_IOC_SETFLAGS instead of having an
interface schism.
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