On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 07:48:58PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Ok. Since we have only one flag (FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) and we do not want
> to declare the default mode (FALLOC_ALLOCATE), we can _just_ have this
> flag and remove the other mode too (FALLOC_RESV_SPACE).
> Is this what you are suggest
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:21:19PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:17:55PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > /*
> > + * sys_fallocate - preallocate blocks or free preallocated blocks
> > + * @fd: the file descriptor
> > + * @mode: mode specifies the behavior of allocatio
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:17:55PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> /*
> + * sys_fallocate - preallocate blocks or free preallocated blocks
> + * @fd: the file descriptor
> + * @mode: mode specifies the behavior of allocation.
> + * @offset: The offset within file, from where allocation is being
> +
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc
fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w
