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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2009-01-21 13:11:13 -0500
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2009-01-21 13:11:13 -0500
commit35054394c4b3cecd52577c2662c84da1f3e73525 (patch)
tree83e6e361357a17851a11a97b6984b4c0c0f2ced9 /fs/fcntl.c
parent7237f1833601dcc435a64176c2c347ec4bd959f9 (diff)
Btrfs: stop providing a bmap operation to avoid swapfile corruptions
Swapfiles use bmap to build a list of extents belonging to the file, and they assume these extents won't change over the life of the file. They also use resulting list to do IO directly to the block device. This causes problems for btrfs in a few ways: btrfs returns logical block numbers through bmap, and these are not suitable for IO. They might translate to different devices, raid etc. COW means that file block mappings are going to change frequently. Using swapfiles on btrfs will lead to corruption, so we're avoiding the problem for now by dropping bmap support entirely. A later commit will add fiemap support for people that really want to know how a file is laid out. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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