Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:49:24 -0700 | From | Sunil Mushran <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags |
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On 04/22/2011 01:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Josef Bacik wrote: > >> This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags. Turns out >> using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try >> and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck. So we have > That's easy to believe, but could you elaborate? What problem does > using fiemap cause? I assume the answer is somewhere in somewhere in > the thread > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/37895/focus=24404 > > but it would be nice to have a summary in the commit log for > posterity.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/24465
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