From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 16:09:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEB91065672 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from nm29-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm29-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18B938FC14 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.61] by nm29.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Aug 2011 15:56:41 -0000 Received: from [98.139.91.21] by tm1.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Aug 2011 15:56:41 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1021.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Aug 2011 15:56:41 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 410340.39070.bm@omp1021.mail.sp2.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 15207 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Aug 2011 15:56:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1314806200; bh=fJYezCtiQWl6cGA+BETvdebccU6dyRIMVJRbdFL+cpk=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-RocketYMMF:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=esQL7I59vm+TtB2Ie3BOWkY1JcBmzpsXOzMosHuAmGdLZDupTr353AQnr0q8g91yoXfjoxMuxy1mpDH0RvDSoxYkG8mH/vXa8mx+jm8zqL+gCC2T1YTL6jagdtHv5GCnrXE89rM5mwO27tez/OtaTWZNkWeI9kEe6UCuXnCRx1Y= X-YMail-OSG: p3BmoNQVM1kzsYp2jIJjzbiD4A4xCcIDVOAFZr9daKiupEy lEmAvyvNB_vXel2Isi2xncYvst7X3yXhzkEsAdD9pFryQIyDfjPEiQam2Da6 sJnCZ.bV5Rfkm20Si1SDTQ.xxoq681.UMMHBHLWgLvw5L5QNpwockUUBIj3g Z6rehx4Xci3qlIHZn1K.d_MhGOD_hLGidc50GmeM1QTJHGy1GLaYwA4ustPn Nh5Is81YIax4w.H3LIkei..fhQqb5SGKnzN4nU0lsXFYePPvmGcBADSVhgE4 MGWByTUdIxUM0BhMZR3MBh9Fs2dmlWGvIAxjJd4C06ivFDZyHN_MX8HCLXqR P4r7WwIAljwcvHNWujOx3rnekes8QXb4YxEB7d3LsMUe1gD.WqtuJ5PrIiE7 Tw5BHyWYVeYlKLnzA26AXHr.X0jIjZb9tD_AJbKdwbeD7mmtNK7NR3xZu7i4 FhPPX8V._65JJW30fJOvEY39nNM3_WZP87HV6mCo9BRG0mfXLB7QNsivS2yO 3Fk9Owxv9tD9xtaEz.reoQxgx5oM45eF0Q812F41cNh6i4OEPv70frhFJDX4 kHFNtoTObEe7ia0P6tyeF3IZeiQtsVWCAihJkRKS4PSPGTA-- Received: from [200.118.157.7] by web113507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:56:40 PDT X-RocketYMMF: giffunip X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/14.0.5 YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.315625 Message-ID: <1314806200.14687.YahooMailClassic@web113507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:56:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on UFS/EXT2FS X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: giffunip@tutopia.com List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:17 -0000 Hi; Just FYI, after reconsidering their position wrt NIH, the linux guys now think SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE is wonderful: http://lwn.net/Articles/440255/ and NetBSD is known to be working on it too (latest patch): http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2011/08/17/msg011231.html I hope our own developers haven't forgotten that this is indeed a desired feature and that we get it for 10.0 or, if possible, 9.1. cheers, Pedro.