Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753276AbXJ1AoR (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:44:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751792AbXJ1AoA (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:44:00 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50362 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691AbXJ1An7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:43:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4723DB48.60700@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:43:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Waychison CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP References: <20071026233732.568575496@crlf.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <20071026233732.568575496@crlf.corp.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 602 Lines: 14 Mike Waychison wrote: > The following series is meant to clean up FIBMAP paths with the eventual goal of allowing users to be able to FIBMAP their data. Keep in mind FIBMAP is currently extremely expensive on some filesystems, e.g. ext3. Therefore, additional filesystem-level work would have to be done in order for this not become a DoS issue. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/