Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:00:06 -0600 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() |
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Jörn Engel wrote: > Does the allocation have to be persistent beyond lifetime of the file > descriptor? It would be fairly simple to support the write guarantee > while the file is open (or rather the inode remains cached) and drop it > afterwards.
"The posix_fallocate() function shall ensure that any required storage for regular file data starting at offset and continuing for len bytes is allocated on the file system storage media."
I interpret "on the storage media" to mean that it is persistent.
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