On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Howard Chu wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:45:16 -0700 > From: Howard Chu <hyc@xxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: truncate head of file? > > Was thinking it would be very handy to have a truncate() variant that deletes > pages from the head of a file. This could be leveraged to make logfiles easier > to maintain, as an example. Anyone else interested, think this would be nice > to have? > > (Note - not the same as just punching holes in the beginning of the file - we > want the beginning of the file to advance as well, past the deleted pages.) I am not really sure I understand the behaviour you'd like to see. Can you please explain the behaviour including more concrete use case ? Thanks! -Lukas -- 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
