On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:05 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > Really, my understanding is that not pre-allocating filesystem blocks > is just fine. This is, after all, what happens with ext3 and it's > never been reported as a bug (that I know of). > fwiw I'm perfectly fine with it > If filesystem people's feedback is that they really want mlock() to > continue pre-allocating blocks, maybe we can just do it using > fallocate() rather than page_mkwrite() callbacks ? Sounds sensible.. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href