linux/include
Mark Fasheh c4b929b85b vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface
Basic vfs-level fiemap infrastructure, which sets up a new ->fiemap
inode operation.

Userspace can get extent information on a file via fiemap ioctl. As input,
the fiemap ioctl takes a struct fiemap which includes an array of struct
fiemap_extent (fm_extents). Size of the extent array is passed as
fm_extent_count and number of extents returned will be written into
fm_mapped_extents. Offset and length fields on the fiemap structure
(fm_start, fm_length) describe a logical range which will be searched for
extents. All extents returned will at least partially contain this range.
The actual extent offsets and ranges returned will be unmodified from their
offset and range on-disk.

The fiemap ioctl returns '0' on success. On error, -1 is returned and errno
is set. If errno is equal to EBADR, then fm_flags will contain those flags
which were passed in which the kernel did not understand. On all other
errors, the contents of fm_extents is undefined.

As fiemap evolved, there have been many authors of the vfs patch. As far as
I can tell, the list includes:
Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-08 19:44:18 -04:00
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acpi ACPICA: Additional error checking for pathname utilities 2008-08-15 02:12:16 +02:00
asm-arm [ARM] 5191/1: ARM: remove CVS keywords 2008-08-16 20:01:18 +01:00
asm-cris Reduce brokenness of CRIS headers_install 2008-08-20 13:19:51 -07:00
asm-frv FRV: Provide ioremap_wc() for FRV 2008-08-20 13:19:52 -07:00
asm-generic warn: Turn the netdev timeout WARN_ON() into a WARN() 2008-09-16 19:39:33 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-m68k m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-11 10:37:34 -07:00
asm-mips [MIPS] IP27: Fix build errors if CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL=y 2008-10-06 01:22:29 +01:00
asm-mn10300 MN10300: Supply ioremap_wc() for MN10300 2008-08-20 13:19:51 -07:00
asm-parisc lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-x86 inotify: fix lock ordering wrt do_page_fault's mmap_sem 2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
crypto crypto: hash - Add missing top-level functions 2008-08-13 20:08:44 +10:00
drm
keys
linux vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface 2008-10-08 19:44:18 -04:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (8610): Add suspend/resume capabilities to soc_camera. 2008-08-06 06:57:32 -03:00
mtd Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6 2008-07-25 10:40:14 -04:00
net sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parameter 2008-09-30 05:32:24 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma RDMA/cma: Remove padding arrays by using struct sockaddr_storage 2008-08-04 11:02:14 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fix check of PQ and PDT bits for WLUNs 2008-08-29 09:19:11 -05:00
sound ALSA: ASoC: Export dapm_reg_event() fully 2008-07-29 16:00:33 +02:00
video atmel_lcdfb: add board parameter specify framebuffer memory size 2008-08-12 16:07:29 -07:00
xen xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks 2008-07-16 11:15:53 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: only one call for include/ in make headers_* 2008-07-25 22:11:44 +02:00