From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:06:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713140651.GO31489@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713124601.GA22961@amitarora.in.ibm.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 12:38 [PATCH 0/6][TAKE7] fallocate system call Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:38 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:46 ` [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 14:06 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-07-13 14:27 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-14 8:23 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-16 5:32 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-23 6:09 ` fallocate() man page Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 13:10 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-24 7:06 ` David Chinner
2007-07-30 6:21 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-30 19:43 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-31 13:56 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-30 19:44 ` fallocate() man page - darft 2 Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-02 17:36 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-08-03 11:59 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-06 6:10 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 14:18 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 12:48 ` [PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 14:28 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:50 ` [PATCH 4/6][TAKE7] ext4: fallocate support in ext4 Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:52 ` [PATCH 5/6][TAKE7] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:52 ` [PATCH 6/6][TAKE7] ext4: change for better extent-to-group alignment Amit K. Arora
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