On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:06:51AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > 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? Sure. > > .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? Yes, it needs to be changed. > 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" Ok. -- Regards, Amit Arora > -- > 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
