Re: [PATCH v2] fiemap: Allow to specify range to fiemap

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On 8/10/17 2:22 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 8/10/17 2:12 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:46:35PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10.08.2017 19:13, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>>> We don't decrement len each time through the ioctl loop?  Doesn't that
>>>> cause us to request and retrieve rows for ranges we don't want?
>>>
>>> Hm, you are right, I believe on every iteration we should do:
>>>
>>> len -= last_logical - start_offset
>>
>> start_offset doesn't change, right?
>>
>> I would think len -= last_logical - fiemap->fm_start.
>>
>> Or just calculate end_offset = start_offset + length and set
>> fiemap->fm_length = end_offset - last_logical... 
>>
>> ...though now that I look at that file even closer I wonder what is
>> going on with that outer while loop counting extents?  Does -n exist to
>> let users cap the number of records to print, even if that means we
>> don't make it to the end of the range requested?
> 
> -n should simply be the size of each fiemap request, i.e. how many to
> request and fill on each iteration.  It should not affect how many
> get printed in the end.
> 
> At least that's how xfs_bmap is supposed to work, and therefore in theory
> how xfs_io's fiemap should work.

... except apparently that is not actually how it works :(

-Eric
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