From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:42886 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751620AbcHEHWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 03:22:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 00:22:26 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: Dave Chinner , 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: <20160805072226.GA8590@birch.djwong.org> 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. Will send an xfstest exercising this shortly, since AFAICT there isn't already one. --D