Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932360AbVKKFSt (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:18:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932361AbVKKFSs (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:18:48 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:13486 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932360AbVKKFSs (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:18:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() From: Arjan van de Ven To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, lkml , linux-mm In-Reply-To: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:18:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.8 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [213.93.14.173 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 1.7 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL RBL: NJABL: dialup sender did non-local SMTP [213.93.14.173 listed in combined.njabl.org] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 17 On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, 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). in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate... did you find a solution to this problem ? > - 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/