Hello, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Denis Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > When translating sync_file_range.2 I had been confused by this sentence: > > When writing into preallocated space, many filesystems also > require calls into the block allocator, which this system > call does not sync out to disk. > > Can someone please rephrase it? In particular, what does 'which' refer to? > Thanks. Actually, now that I look more closely at it, I realize that I find it hard to parse too. Christoph wrote that sentence. perhaps he can help? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
