[PATCH 3/4] xfs: Adding XFS_IOC_FIEMAPFS ioctl for use in xfs_spaceman

[Dhruvesh Rathore]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 06:59:22PM +0530, Dhruvesh Rathore wrote:
>>
>> This patch is concerned with the changes to be done in kernel space code for
>> turning FS_IOC_FIEMAPFS present in the earlier version of xfs_spaceman
>> into an XFS specific ioctl called XFS_IOC_FIEMAPFS, which uses all existing
>> fiemap insfrastructure.
>> By introducing XFS_IOC_FIMEAPFS ioctl, it can be seperated from file based
>> fiemap commands and allows us to review it and push it as we need, making the
>> process much simpler.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dhruvesh Rathore <dhruvesh_r at outlook.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Amey Ruikar <ameyruikar at yahoo.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Somdeep Dey <somdeepdey10 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> fs/ioctl.c            | 3  ++-
>> include/linux/fs.h    | 6  ++++++
>> fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c    | 55 +++++++++++++
>> fs/xfs/xfs_fs.h               | 1  +
>> 4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Ok, so this patch doesn't remove any of the now unused
> functionality I added to support the VFS based ioctl.
>
> What I'm going to do with this is combine it with the initial
> "introduce FS_IOC_FIEMAP" patch I wrote (including all it's
> documentation!) as the first patch of the kernel side patch series
> to introduced XFS_IOC_FIEMAPFS.
>

Seems appropriate to us.

Regards,
A-DRS