On Mar 1 2007 23:09, Dave Kleikamp wrote: >> >> Given that glibc already implements fallocate for all filesystems, it will >> need to continue to do so for filesystems which don't implement this >> syscall - otherwise applications would start breaking. > >I didn't make it clear, but my point was to call generic_fallocate if >the file system did not define i_op->allocate(). > >if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->fallocate) > ret = inode->i_op->fallocate(inode, offset, len); >else > ret = generic_fallocate(inode, offset, len); > >I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but I thought I'd throw the idea out >there. Writing zeroes using glibc emu most likely means write() -- so generic_fallocate should be preferable (think splice). Or does glibc use mmap() and it's all different? Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
