On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by > David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. > > This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok. Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on? > .TH fallocate 2 > .SH NAME > fallocate \- allocate or remove file space If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong. maybe - "manipulate file space" instead? dd> .TP > .B FALLOC_RESV_SPACE > provides the same functionality as > .B FALLOC_ALLOCATE > except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation > of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising "of zeroed blocks" -- 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
