Sunil Mushran wrote: > SEEK_HOLE/DATA also have the same problem with active files. Yes, that's true if 'cp' is copying a file while someone else is writing to it. But the case we're worried about is when 'cp' starts copying a file immediately after someone else has finished writing to it but data has not been sent to disk; in that case SEEK_HOLE/DATA should work just as well as the fiemap ioctl. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
