Re: Question on fallocate/ftruncate sequence (and flags)

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>>
>> I'm confused (again?) :).  I don't see FS_FALLOC_FL in the latest kernel
>> source, and ext2 (well, my ext2 anyway) can't do fallocate().  Google
>> (well, my google search) can't find it either.  Is this something in
>> your tree?
>
> I think I recall Google working on a patch for fallocate on ext2, but
> it was vetoed from upstream inclusion because we don't want to flog
> a dead horse.

Is that ext2 patch still around?  I'm doing some r&d via ext2 and it
might handy to have fallocate() for it.

Greg
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