From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:31:18 -0800 Message-ID: <20070301203118.GL15090@samba1> References: <20070117094658.GA17390@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070225022326.137b4875.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070301183445.GA7911@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <45E73637.1000508@garzik.org> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com, alex@clusterfs.com, suzuki@in.ibm.com To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:53752 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030243AbXCAU5d (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:57:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45E73637.1000508@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:23:19PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I certainly agree that we want something like this. > > posix_fallocate() is the glibc interface we want to be compatible with > (which your definition is, AFAICS). This would be great for Samba. Windows clients do this a lot.... Jeremy.