On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:46:52AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:01:57PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > Minimal definition to replace what applicaitons use on XFS and to > > support poasix_fallocate are the thre that have been mentioned so > > far (FA_ALLOCATE, FA_PREALLOCATE, FA_DEALLOCATE). I'll document them > > all in a man page... > > Hi Dave, > > Did you get time to write the above man page ? It will help to push > further patches in time (eg. for FA_PREALLOCATE mode). No, I didn't. Instead of working on new preallocation stuff, I've been spending all my time fixing bugs found by new and interesting (ab)uses of preallocation and hole punching. > The idea I had was to push the patch with bare minimum functionality > (FA_ALLOCATE and FA_DEALLOCATE modes) and parallely finalize on other > new mode(s) based on the man page you planned to provide. Push them. I'll just make XFS work with whatever is provided. Is there a test harness for the syscall yet? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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
