From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:06:51 +1000 Message-ID: <20070713140651.GO31489@sgi.com> References: <20070713123816.GA18000@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070713124601.GA22961@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net, tytso@mit.edu, cmm@us.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, dgc@sgi.com To: "Amit K. Arora" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070713124601.GA22961@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by > David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. > > This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok. Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on? > .TH fallocate 2 > .SH NAME > fallocate \- allocate or remove file space If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong. maybe - "manipulate file space" instead? dd> .TP > .B FALLOC_RESV_SPACE > provides the same functionality as > .B FALLOC_ALLOCATE > except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation > of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising "of zeroed blocks" -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group