On 4/19/11 9:09 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:45:38PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: >> You are *not listening*. There is no #2. FIEMAP returns the extent >> state _on disk_ at the time of the call. > > Dave, you're being rather strident about your insistence about what > FIEMAP's semantics are. Part of the problem here is that it's *not* > clear or settled. > > If it really is the state _on_ _disk_, does XFS really have a DELALLOC > bit _on_ _disk_? > > - Ted > no of course it doesn't.... But I too am confused about Dave's assertion that it only reflects ondisk state when we have that pesky delalloc flag. Whose idea was that, anyway? ;) I'd certainly buy the argument that it -should- only reflect ondisk state, and we should nuke the delalloc flag from orbit, if we could, though. -Eric -- 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
