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SubjectRe: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
FromNathan Scott <>
DateFri, 02 Mar 2007 09:40:54 +1100
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.

--
Nathan

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