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SubjectRe: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:04:45 +0530
>> "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is to give a heads up on few patches that we will be soon coming up
>>> with. These patches implement a new system call sys_fallocate() and a
>>> new inode operation "fallocate", for persistent preallocation. The new
>>> system call, as Andrew suggested, will look like:
>>>
>>> asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
>> ...
>>
>> I'd agree with Eric on the "command" flag extension.
>
> Seems like a separate syscall would be better, "command" sounds
> a bit ioctl like, especially if that command is passed into the
> filesystems..
>
> cheers.
>

I'm fine with that too, I'd just like the functionality :)

-Eric
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