On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:54:50PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Yes, this sounds feasible. We could split the defrag ioctl into two > pieces (addition of given extent to a file and swapping of extents), which > can have generic interface... An ioctl is UGLY. This was discussed years ago. Google for 'Alexander Viro' and 'ext2meta'. That's a clean, flexible, extensible way to access metadata online. No need for ioctl binary translation across 32bit<->64bit, or any other ioctl issue. 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