On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:30:02PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote: > Could we have a more abstract method for asking the filesystem where the > free blocks are and then using the same block addressing to tell the > fs where to allocate/move the file's data to? That's fundamentally racy, so you might as well just read the filesystem metadata from userspace. No need to go through the kernel for that. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
