Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:42:18 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: sct@redhat.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext3 reservation allow turn off for specifed file
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Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Allow user shut down reservation-based allocation(using ioctl) on a specific file(e.g. for seeky random write).

Applications currently pass a seeky-access hint into the kernel via
posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_RANDOM).  It would be nice to hook into that
rather than adding an ext3-specific ioctl.  Maybe just peeking at
file->f_ra.ra_pages would suffice.

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