On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > IMHO this shouldn't be done in the loop driver anyway. Filesystems have > > their own effricient extent lookup trees (well, at least xfs and btrfs > > do), and we should leverage that instead of reinventing it. > > Completely agree, it's just needed right now for this solution since all > we have is a crappy bmap() interface to get at those mappings. So let's fix the interface instead of piling crap ontop of it. As I said I think Peter has something to start with so let's beat on it until we have something suitable. If we aren't done by end of Feb I'm happy to host a hackfest to get it sorted around the fs/storage summit.. - 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
