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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File perforation.
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:47:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030111094743.A22074@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108225551.G26554@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:55:51PM +0000

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:55:51PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:06:00PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I've been resisting these requests because I really don't want to do it 
> > with an ioctl on the file. Only if we can have a generic sys_perforate() 
> > would I really want to do it.
> 
> SGI have an fcntl to do this:
> 
> http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/p_man/cat2/standard/fcntl.z
> 
> F_FREESP

Or the XFS_IOC_FREESP ioctl on XFS/Linux..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-11  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 22:06 File perforation David Woodhouse
2003-01-08 22:28 ` Eli Carter
2003-01-08 22:34   ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-08 22:56     ` Eli Carter
2003-01-08 23:14       ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-09  1:22         ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-09  3:23           ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-08 23:17     ` Steven Whitehouse
2003-01-08 23:16       ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-08 23:36         ` Steven Whitehouse
2003-01-08 23:25           ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-10  1:39         ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-08 22:45 ` Dave Kleikamp
2003-01-08 22:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-01-08 23:02   ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-11  9:47   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-10  1:34 ` Bryan Henderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-10 22:24 Steven French
2003-01-11  1:46 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-13  3:52 Steven French

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