From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.129]:42815 "EHLO ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934950AbcHEKtz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 06:49:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 20:49:50 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , Mark Fasheh , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com, bfoster@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/47] xfs: add reverse mapping support Message-ID: <20160805104950.GF16044@dastard> References: <146907695530.25461.3225785294902719773.stgit@birch.djwong.org> <20160803194536.GJ5316@wotan.suse.de> <20160803205520.GQ8590@birch.djwong.org> <20160804005843.GJ8593@birch.djwong.org> <20160804021852.GK5316@wotan.suse.de> <20160804154845.GV8590@birch.djwong.org> <20160804235015.GC16044@dastard> <1470380474.2311.71.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1470380474.2311.71.camel@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:01:14AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 09:50 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I'd much prefer that fiemap gives exact information about shared > > extents. FIEMAP is a diagnostic tool and as such we need it to > > accurately reflect the exact extent map of the inode being queried > > so we aren't mislead about the layout of the file during trouble > > shooting. > > Hi Dave, you are right, and here is a side note: �we were using FIEMAP > for optimizing image deployment in production, so it is a diagnostic > tool and more. Yay, data corruption ahoy! Hasn't /anyone/ listened to the repeated statements from fs developers that FIEMAP is not a safe method of optimising data copying? -Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CFD7CA0 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 05:50:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFB0AC005 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 03:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id E8yPeLgtgxFbjzbH for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 03:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 20:49:50 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/47] xfs: add reverse mapping support Message-ID: <20160805104950.GF16044@dastard> References: <146907695530.25461.3225785294902719773.stgit@birch.djwong.org> <20160803194536.GJ5316@wotan.suse.de> <20160803205520.GQ8590@birch.djwong.org> <20160804005843.GJ8593@birch.djwong.org> <20160804021852.GK5316@wotan.suse.de> <20160804154845.GV8590@birch.djwong.org> <20160804235015.GC16044@dastard> <1470380474.2311.71.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1470380474.2311.71.camel@gmail.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , Mark Fasheh , vishal.l.verma@intel.com, bfoster@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:01:14AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 09:50 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I'd much prefer that fiemap gives exact information about shared > > extents. FIEMAP is a diagnostic tool and as such we need it to > > accurately reflect the exact extent map of the inode being queried > > so we aren't mislead about the layout of the file during trouble > > shooting. > = > Hi Dave, you are right, and here is a side note: =A0we were using FIEMAP > for optimizing image deployment in production, so it is a diagnostic > tool and more. Yay, data corruption ahoy! Hasn't /anyone/ listened to the repeated statements from fs developers that FIEMAP is not a safe method of optimising data copying? -Dave. -- = Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs