From: Nathan Scott Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:40:54 +1100 Message-ID: <1172788855.26078.294.camel@edge> References: <20070117094658.GA17390@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070225022326.137b4875.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070301183445.GA7911@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070301142537.b5950cd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: nscott@aconex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com, alex@clusterfs.com, suzuki@in.ibm.com, Ulrich Drepper To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from mail.app.aconex.com ([203.89.192.138]:50791 "EHLO postoffice.aconex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161052AbXCAWhO (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:37:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070301142537.b5950cd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:04:45 +0530 > "Amit K. Arora" wrote: > > > This is to give a heads up on few patches that we will be soon coming up > > with. These patches implement a new system call sys_fallocate() and a > > new inode operation "fallocate", for persistent preallocation. The new > > system call, as Andrew suggested, will look like: > > > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len); > ... > > I'd agree with Eric on the "command" flag extension. Seems like a separate syscall would be better, "command" sounds a bit ioctl like, especially if that command is passed into the filesystems.. cheers. -- Nathan