Amit K. Arora 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 am wondering about return values from this syscall ? Is it supposed to
return the
number of bytes allocated ? What about partial allocations ? What about
if the
blocks already exists ? What would be return values in those cases ?
Just curious .. What does posix_fallocate() return ?
Thanks,
Badari
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