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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
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    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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