Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030436AbVKPSjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:39:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030438AbVKPSjE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:39:04 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40874 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030433AbVKPSjA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:39:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:09:06 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: Badari Pulavarty , andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() Message-ID: <20051113150906.GA2193@spitz.ucw.cz> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 23 Hi! > > 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. Some database people wanted it maybe month ago. It was replaced by some madvise hack... -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/