lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jun]   [12]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc
    On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:46:52AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
    > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:01:57PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
    > > Minimal definition to replace what applicaitons use on XFS and to
    > > support poasix_fallocate are the thre that have been mentioned so
    > > far (FA_ALLOCATE, FA_PREALLOCATE, FA_DEALLOCATE). I'll document them
    > > all in a man page...
    >
    > Hi Dave,
    >
    > Did you get time to write the above man page ? It will help to push
    > further patches in time (eg. for FA_PREALLOCATE mode).

    No, I didn't. Instead of working on new preallocation stuff, I've
    been spending all my time fixing bugs found by new and interesting
    (ab)uses of preallocation and hole punching.

    > The idea I had was to push the patch with bare minimum functionality
    > (FA_ALLOCATE and FA_DEALLOCATE modes) and parallely finalize on other
    > new mode(s) based on the man page you planned to provide.

    Push them. I'll just make XFS work with whatever is provided.
    Is there a test harness for the syscall yet?

    Cheers,

    Dave.
    --
    Dave Chinner
    Principal Engineer
    SGI Australian Software Group
    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2007-06-12 10:15    [W:3.640 / U:0.044 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site