Re: FIEMAP patches

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:22:50PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I read through the entire previous FIEMAP thread (phew!) and it boils
> down mostly to:
> 
> s/FIEMAP_FLAG_NO_DIRECT/FIEMAP_FLAG_NO_BYPASS/

Yeah, there's a few like that. I'll have to go back through the thread.


> > * FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN                                                    
> > Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but it's data has not been        
> > initialized.  This indicates the extent's data will be all zero.             
>                                                                                
> This should say "will be all zero if read through the filesystem              
> but the contents are undefined if read directly from the device."
> 
> There was also an update to the ext4 patch from Kalpak for handling
> EA-in-inode at the same time as an external inode.
> 
> Eric, Mark,
> could one of you please just submit the patches to Andrew for inclusion.
> I think there was plenty of debate already, with very little significant
> benefit except suggesting different names for some of the flags.

Agreed. I'll go ahead and spin another set of patches this week.
	--Mark

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