[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH][RFC] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls

[Ankit Jain]

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