On Mon, 9 April 2007 23:01:42 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Jörn Engel writes: > > > Wouldn't that work be confined to fallocate()? If I understand Heiko > > correctly, the alternative would slow s390 down for every syscall, > > including more performance-critical ones. > > The alternative that Jakub suggested wouldn't slow s390 down. True. And it appears to be one of the least offensive options we have. Jörn -- My second remark is that our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra - 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