Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] Documentation: Correct the description of FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 03:27:08PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> Currently FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST is not working consistently across
> different filesystem's fiemap implementations and thus this feature
> may be broken. So fix the documentation about this flag to meet the
> right expectations.

Are you saying filesystems have both false positives and false negatives?
I can understand how a filesystem might fail to set FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST,
but not how a filesystem might set it when there's actually another
extent beyond this one.

>  * FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
> -This is the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past this
> -extent will return nothing.
> +This is generally the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past this
> +extent may return nothing. But the user must still confirm by trying to map
> +past this extent, since different filesystems implement this differently.



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