Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#808265: e2fsprogs: support btrfs compression in filefrag

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Christoph Anton Mitterer posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2015 01:00:55 +0100 as
excerpted:

> How, exactly, do you propose that filefrag understand this?  It is
> getting the information from the fiemap ioctl:
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
> 
> and the problem is that fiemap returns the logical length of the extent,
> but not the *physical* length of the extent.  So this is why the
> filefrag is show what appears to be overlapping extents:


Thanks.  The devs might have known that, but you definitely just expanded 
my own knowledge and understanding of the subject.  (I had tried to make 
sense of filefrag -v and couldn't, here.  After reading your relay of 
Ted's reply, the output makes /much/ better sense to me! =:^)

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