On May 29, 2008 09:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:24:35AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > To fix this, FIECOUNT becomes much more complex however other > > existing interfaces will still expose conflicting information (e.g. > > XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR). Hence I don't think extent merging is a > > good idea in general for this API. For specific implementations > > it could be considered (e.g. the block-based filesystem wrappers) > > but it should not forced on all implementations. > > Yes. Extent merging only really makes sense for block based > filesystems, and there should be an output flag telling the user > that this happened. I've accepted that extent merging is a bad idea for the generic interface. I think for block-mapped filesystems this pretty much has to happen. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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
