On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:04:45 +0530 > "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is to give a heads up on few patches that we will be soon coming up > > with. These patches implement a new system call sys_fallocate() and a > > new inode operation "fallocate", for persistent preallocation. The new > > system call, as Andrew suggested, will look like: > > > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len); > ... > > I'd agree with Eric on the "command" flag extension. Seems like a separate syscall would be better, "command" sounds a bit ioctl like, especially if that command is passed into the filesystems.. cheers. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
