From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: posix_fallocate question again
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:46:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030820214643.A5572@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F331DBE1178346A6F30D7CF124B24B0183C1A4@fmsmsx409.fm.intel.com>; from kenneth.w.chen@intel.com on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:07:10PM -0700
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:07:10PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> This has been brought up by Ulrich more than 3 years ago:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=95569775802945&w=2
Note that the design for posix_fallocate is stupid. We really want
a 64bit len argument even on 32bit machines.
> Is there anytime soon that kernel 2.6 will have such functionality?
On XFS you can use ioctl(.., XFS_IOC_RESVSP64, ..)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-20 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-20 19:07 posix_fallocate question again Chen, Kenneth W
2003-08-20 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-21 9:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-08-21 15:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 15:47 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-08-20 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-08-21 2:36 ` Ulrich Drepper
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