Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com,
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:01:10 -0800
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On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:09 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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...

Hmm. Someone other than me asking for it ? 

I did the madvise() hack and asking to see if any one really needs
sys_punchole().

Thanks,
Badari

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