Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

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On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:29:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2007  16:13 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Oct 29, 2007  13:57 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > > I'm a little bit confused by fe_offset. Is it a physical offset, or a
> > > logical offset? The reason I ask is that your description above says "FIEMAP
> > > ioctl will return the logical to physical mapping for the extent that
> > > contains the specified logical byte address." Which seems to imply physical,
> > > but your math to get to the next logical start in a very fragmented file,
> > > implies that fe_offset is a logical offset:
> > > 
> > >        fm_start = fm_extents[fm_extent_count - 1].fe_offset +
> > >                          fm_extents[fm_extent_count - 1].fe_length + 1; 
> > 
> > Note the distinction between "fe_offset" (which is a physical offset for
> > a single extent) and "fm_offset" (which is a logical offset for that file).
> 
> Actually, that is completely bunk.  What it should say is something like:
> "filefrag can easily call the FIEMAP ioctls repeatedly using the returned
> fm_start and fm_length as the start offset for the next ioctl:
> 
>         fiemap.fm_start = fiemap.fm_start + fiemap.fm_length + 1;

Yeah - that's where I was going with my question. This is much more clear
now, thanks.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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