On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:06:37AM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: > IMHO, to avoid data loss in some user application like cp(1), for > unwritten extents, we always need to check the pages status. Just as > you mentioned above, return the map offset if pages are dirty for > SEEK_DATA, or a hole found. I'd suggest to first implement the simple versions I schemed below, which would treat unwritten extents as data. That is sub-optimal, but a) safe and b) easy to implement. The second step would be to add probing for unwritten extents, which is even something we could do as a common helper routine shared by filesystems. And the most important thing is of course adding QA for it. Josef already wrote an xfstests case that needs to be resurrected, compared against the latest Posix draft and if nessecary updated. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
