Nathan Scott wrote:
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.
I'm fine with that too, I'd just like the functionality :)
-Eric
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