Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:39:49 -0600 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() |
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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 :)
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