Re: [PATCH][RFC] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibilitywith legacy xfs ioctls

From: Ankit Jain
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 16:14:51 EST


Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:34:24PM +0530, Ankit Jain wrote:
>> 2. Should the corresponding ioctls be removed from ocfs2?
>
> Well, a small amount of the code in fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c can certainly go away.
> Shouldn't we be talking about doing the same for xfs too?

Reading the code a bit, my understanding is that as compat_ioctl is also
supported and that just delegates to ioctl (ocfs2_ioctl), so we can't
remove the *_RESVSP* handling.
Same goes for xfs also.

Does that sound fair or did I not understand it correctly?

-Ankit
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