On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:11:17PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > glibc cannot ever be smart enough because a file system driver will > always know better and be able to do things in a much more optimized > way. Please read the thread again. That is not what anyone proposed. The issues we're discussing is whether fallback for a filesystem that does not support preallocation natively should be done in kernelspace or in userspace. - 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