On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:13:34PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > > Why don't we just merge the interface for preallocation (essentially > > enough to satisfy posix_fallocate() and the simple XFS requirement for > > space reservation without changing file size), which there is clear agreement > > on (I hope :)). After all, this was all that we set out to do when we > > started. > > > > And leave all the dealloc/punch/hsm type features for separate future patches/ > > debates, those really shouldn't hold up the basic fallocate interface. > > I agree with Christoph that we are just diverging too much in trying to > > club those decisions here. > > > > Dave, Andreas, Ted ? > > Sure. I'll just make XFS work with whatever it is that gets merged. Great. I will post the new patches soon. -- Regards, Amit Arora - 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
