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SubjectRe: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP

> But, we shouldn't inflict all of this on fibmap/fiemap....we'll get
> lost trying to make the one true interface for all operations.
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> For grouping operations on files, I think a read_tree syscall with
> hints for what userland will do (read, stat, delete, list
> filenames), and a better cookie than readdir should do it.

Agreed, on both points.

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