>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Christoph> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:52:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> > I don't really understand the comment. But I think you'd be much >> >> I don't know of a block device primitive that corresponds to the >> "default" mode of fallocate, as documented in the manpage (i.e. mode >> == 0). I agree that the whole thing could be simplified in the >> manner you point out below. Christoph> SCSI allows 'anchoring' blocks, which is pretty similar to a Christoph> normal fallocate, but we don't support anchoring blocks in Christoph> Linux yet. Chicken and egg problem. I actually did tinker with this for a different project a while back and can easily revive it. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
