On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 05 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +0000, a écrit : > > In fact, it is impossible to map out the blocks of > > a file hole without actually allocating the blocks, > > which defeats the purpose of the hole. Instead, I > > think the right solution is to simply have ext2fs's > > diskfs_S_file_get_storage_info fail if the file > > contains holes, so that the client will use it > > through the filesystem interface. > > Will that be automatic?
The client will automatically use file_store if file_get_storage_info fails, yes. I'm not entirely sure which error code to fail with though. We could also explicitly return a file_store. I'm not sure which is more proper. Regards, Fredrik
