Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422759AbXAMT3I (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:29:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422761AbXAMT3I (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:29:08 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:43082 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422759AbXAMT3G (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: <45A9336E.3050807@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:30:54 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 7eggert@gmx.de, Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question References: <7BYkO-5OV-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <7BYul-6gz-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <7C74B-2A4-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CaYA-mT-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <7Cpuz-64X-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7Cz0T-4PH-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CBcl-86B-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CBvH-52-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CBFn-hw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CBP1-KI-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <7CBYG-WK-3@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 19 Bodo Eggert wrote: > (*) This would allow fadvise_size(), too, which could reduce fragmentation > (and give an early warning on full disks) without forcing e.g. fat to > zero all blocks. OTOH, fadvise_size() would allow users to reserve the > complete disk space without his filesizes reflecting this. Please clarify how this would interact with quota, and why it wouldn't allow someone to run me out of disk. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/