[PATCH 0/5][TAKE2] fallocate system call

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the new set of patches which take care of the review comments received from the community (mainly from Andrew). Description: --- 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

Re: [PATCH 0/5][TAKE2] fallocate system call

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 14, 2007 18:59 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > > fd: The descriptor of the open file. > > mode*: This specifies the behavior of the system call. Currently the > system call supports two modes - FA_ALLOCATE and F

Re: [PATCH 0/5][TAKE2] fallocate system call

2007-05-15 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:31:21AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On May 14, 2007 18:59 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > > > > fd: The descriptor of the open file. > > > > mode*: This specifies the behavior of the syste