From: "Amit K. Arora" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:57:23 +0530 Message-ID: <20070713142723.GC27291@amitarora.in.ibm.com> References: <20070713123816.GA18000@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070713124601.GA22961@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070713140651.GO31489@sgi.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 To: David Chinner Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:44085 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758005AbXGMO1R (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:27:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070713140651.GO31489@sgi.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:06:51AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > 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? Sure. > > .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? Yes, it needs to be changed. > 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" Ok. -- Regards, Amit Arora > -- > Dave Chinner > Principal Engineer > SGI Australian Software Group