[RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-12 Thread Andreas Dilger
I'm interested in getting input for implementing an ioctl to efficiently map file extents holes (FIEMAP) instead of looping over FIBMAP a billion times. We already have customers with single files in the 10TB range and we additionally need to get the mapping over the network so it needs to be

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery). This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage data.

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Andreas, On 12 Apr 2007, at 12:05, Andreas Dilger wrote: I'm interested in getting input for implementing an ioctl to efficiently map file extents holes (FIEMAP) instead of looping over FIBMAP a billion times. We already have customers with single files in the 10TB range and we

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-12 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 12, 2007 12:22 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 12 Apr 2007, at 12:05, Andreas Dilger wrote: I'm interested in getting input for implementing an ioctl to efficiently map file extents holes (FIEMAP) instead of looping over FIBMAP a billion times. We already have customers with