From: Greg Freemyer Subject: Re: Question on fallocate/ftruncate sequence (and flags) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87f94c370907231633w75054378s5c49f20927fd61b0@mail.gmail.com> References: <6601abe90907200936w61ebda92reae368a2b9efac66@mail.gmail.com> <4A64F37D.7020803@redhat.com> <1248211771.20743.2.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com> <20090721215421.GM4231@webber.adilger.int> <1248378517.8421.4.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com> <4A68C9EC.4050301@redhat.com> <20090723215357.GE4231@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Eric Sandeen , Frank Mayhar , Curt Wohlgemuth , ext4 development To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:34330 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753990AbZGWXdF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:33:05 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so1582113and.1 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:33:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090723215357.GE4231@webber.adilger.int> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> >> I'm confused (again?) :). =A0I don't see FS_FALLOC_FL in the latest = kernel >> source, and ext2 (well, my ext2 anyway) can't do fallocate(). =A0Goo= gle >> (well, my google search) can't find it either. =A0Is this something = in >> your tree? > > I think I recall Google working on a patch for fallocate on ext2, but > it was vetoed from upstream inclusion because we don't want to flog > a dead horse. Is that ext2 patch still around? I'm doing some r&d via ext2 and it might handy to have fallocate() for it. Greg --=20 Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Pap= er - The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html