Re: [PATCH 43/63] xfs: teach get_bmapx about shared extents and the CoW fork

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:05:37AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:58:13PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > +#define BMV_IF_COWFORK		0x20	/* return CoW fork rather than data */
> 
> I think exposing an implementation detail like the COW fork that has
> no on-disk equivalent is a bad idea and would feel much better if this
> part of the patch was dropped.

There are a few xfstests that check the contents of the CoW extent fork
to make sure it's working properly.  How about a compromise -- leave the
flag in, but return -EINVAL unless CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=y ?

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