Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754914AbXJ2UBz (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754367AbXJ2UBn (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:43 -0400 Received: from tetsuo.zabbo.net ([207.173.201.20]:38463 "EHLO tetsuo.zabbo.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752453AbXJ2UBm (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:42 -0400 Message-ID: <47263C2C.3090409@zabbo.net> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:01:48 -0700 From: Zach Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Mason CC: Mike Waychison , Anton Altaparmakov , 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> <20071029101001.4378a7cf@think.oraclecorp.com> <47260AB1.9000003@zabbo.net> <472631FE.9070003@google.com> <20071029154657.04ddd13b@think.oraclecorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20071029154657.04ddd13b@think.oraclecorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 16 > But, we shouldn't inflict all of this on fibmap/fiemap....we'll get > lost trying to make the one true interface for all operations. > > For grouping operations on files, I think a read_tree syscall with > hints for what userland will do (read, stat, delete, list > filenames), and a better cookie than readdir should do it. Agreed, on both points. - z - 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/