On 2 May 2007, at 09:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

On 1 May 2007, at 23:30, Andreas Dilger wrote:

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On May 01, 2007  14:22 +1000, David Chinner wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:44:01PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:

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Hmm, I'd thought "offline" would migrate to EXTENT_UNKNOWN, but  
I didn't

I disagree - why would you want to indicate the state is unknown  
when we know
very well that it is offline?

If you don't like "UNKNOWN", what about "UNMAPPED"?  I just want a
catch-all flag that indicates "this extent contains data but there is
nothing sensible to be returned for the extent mapping."

I like UNMAPPED.  I even use it in NTFS internally for extents maps  
that have not been read into memory yet.  (-:

Oops, I use NOT_MAPPED in NTFS rather than UNMAPPED but I still like  
UNMAPPED, too.  (-:

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/