On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:02:16AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > 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. Yes, I agree and probably was a little unclear in that previous mail. It should happen for and only for block-based filesystems. And there should be a flag telling that user that it has happened. -- 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
