Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fiemap, an extent mapping ioctl - round 2

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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Any application that calls fiemap and then goes and reads or writes
> those blocks on disk is totally brain damaged and should be sent to
> bitrot hell.  fiemap is about information not about direct access to
> disk by user space.

So why FIEMAP_EXTENT_NO_DIRECT "Direct access to the data in this
extent is illegal or will have undefined results" in the patches?

- Jamie
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