On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:34:13AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, it seems like ocfs implements the xfs preallocation ioctls. What > would people thing about moving those up to work over ->fallocate so they > can be used on all filesystems that support preallocation? That sounds like a good idea. We've already got a very good match on RESVP/UNRESVP with the various ->fallocate flags. I'm not sure whether we want to do this for ALLOCSP/FREESP - as far as I've heard those are hardly used. > While the ABI is quite ugly it has a huge userbase because it's the only > existing preallocation mechanism on Linux. Yeah, that was the primary reason I chose to implement the ioctl (along with the ->fallocate patch) --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@xxxxxxxxxx - 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
