Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:53:27 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>, pbadari@us.ibm.com,
       Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/6]: ext3 reservations: Renumber the ext3 reservations ioctls
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:02:27PM +0100, Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> All ext2/3 ioctls apart from these ones use 'f' as the root char for
> their macro-generated ioctl numbers; make reservations consistent with
> this.

Maybe you could reuse the XFS reservation ioctls instead of adding
another set?  Having incompatible APIs for the same thing on different
filesystems sounds like the wrong way to go.

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