On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:00:08PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > * FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED > > I like this name better, it seems clearer what it means. > > > This extent does not consistant of plain filesystem blocks but is > > encoded (e.g. encrypted or compressed) or shared with other data by the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > filesystem. > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Shared blocks must not be overwritten to the block device when > unmounted - but they might be safe to *read*, e.g. by LILO. I guess my terminalogy wasn't clear enough. I didn't mean shared by multiple files, but different areas in one block used by different files, e.g. reiserfs tail merging or ufs fragments. These things always were a pain in the neck for lilo. -- 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
