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SubjectRe: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
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Hi,

On Friday 11 November 2005 00:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> > (in the future).
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113036713810002&w=2
> >
> > What I am wondering is, should I invest time now to do it ?
>
> I haven't even heard anyone mention a need for this in the past 1-2 years.

Because the people need it are usally at the application level.
It would be useful with hard disk editing.

But this would need a move_blocks within the filesystem, which
could attach a given list of blocks to another file.

E.g. mremap() for files :-)

Both together would make harddisk video editing with linux quite
performant and less error prone.


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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