[Cluster-devel] [PATCH][try6] VFS: new want_holesize and got_holesize buffer_head flags for fiemap

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On 22/10/14 07:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This looks like a big indicator that get_blocks is the wrong
> interface for fiemap.
>

The question is then, what a better interface would look like? We could 
have "get_hole" as an extra operation I suppose. Not sure that I really 
see why thats better or worse than the extra flag at the moment? or did 
you have something else in mind?

Steve.