linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/9]ext4: Add the EXT4_IOC_FIEMAP

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Message-ID: <20081026084848.GA9270@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:48:48 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Akira Fujita <a-fujita@...jp.nec.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/9]ext4: Add the EXT4_IOC_FIEMAP_INO ioctl

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:40:48AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> This was mentioned last time these patches were posted, but there was
> no reply from you.  Christoph suggested a more generic VFS open-by-inum,
> which isn't impossible to do but would cause a lot of controversy I
> think, while the EXT4_IOC_WRAPPER is at least contained within ext4,
> but is more generically useful than EXT4_IOC_FIEMAP_INO.

I'll hack up a generic open_by_handle and then we can gather the
reaction - it shouldn't be more than about one or two hundred lines of
code.  Note that you really want an open by handle and not just inum for
a defragmentation tool - without the generation you can easily run into
races.

Btw, any reason the XFS approach of passing in filehandles for both
the inode to be defragmented and the "donor" inode doesn't work for you?

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