-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 12, 2007 12:22 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> This would say that the offset on disk can move at any time or that >> the data is compressed or encrypted on disk thus the data is not >> useful for direct disk access. > > This makes sense. Even for Reiserfs the same is true with packed tails, > and I believe if FIBMAP is called on a tail it will migrate the tail into > a block because this is might be a sign that the file is a kernel that > LILO wants to boot.
Actually, reiserfs_aop_bmap() returns 0 when the requested block is in a tail. There's a separate ioctl for unpacking them. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGH5l+LPWxlyuTD7IRAn5/AJ9VcocIcDGr9wtAlgGZuOAQWqVASwCfVdWM uLZQq1mkf8hsGXOpZtKQH5w= =AxnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html