Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Is there a "make hole" (truncate in middle) syscall? | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:37:17 -0500 |
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Hi Andreas,
On Thursday 11 December 2003 14:43, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Presumably, if a filesystem didn't support a punch filesystem method > (either because it is unimplemented or because the filesystem doesn't > support holes) it would be implemented as either a truncate (if end is > beyond i_size) or a series of zero writes instead.
It would be more regular and less surprising to make it semantically equivalent to writing a string of zeros, that is, it will never truncate and may extend a file.
Regards,
Daniel
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