Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751231AbVKJXcl (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:32:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751232AbVKJXcl (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:32:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:38051 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbVKJXck (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:32:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:32:54 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() Message-Id: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 20 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality > (in the future). > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113036713810002&w=2 > > What I am wondering is, should I invest time now to do it ? I haven't even heard anyone mention a need for this in the past 1-2 years. > Or wait till need arises ? A long wait, I suspect.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/