Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:01:48 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP |
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> 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. > > 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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