linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface

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Message-ID: <20080915144754.GA16491@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:47:54 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...uxfoundation.org, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 03:58:11PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:08:44PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Sometimes I really wish people would read email before replying to them.
> > I did not say anywhere that this flag (at least for the use case I think
> > it is which no one even bothered to document) is good, but the name
> > and description are utterly wrong, and misleading.
> 
> Want to pick a name, then?

Again, I'd love it when people would read my mails :(  Can we please
first agree on what the flag is actually supposed to mean?  I made one
guess in this mail, but I'm not sure if that's even what Andreas
intended.  And of course the description for it is even more important
than the name.

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