Hi Christoph, On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> ?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. > > How about: > > Usually filesystems also need to update metadata when writing into > preallocated space. This system call does not guarantee the persistance > of conversions from preallocated to regularly allocated space. Personally, I'm still having a little trouble with the last sentence. I think my failure may be one of technical understanding, rather than a language problem. Could you try explaining in a different way, perhaps with a few more words? Thanks, 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
