From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Thieu Le <thieule@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Export do_fallocate() to kernel modules
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:59:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110823215924.GN2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314136075-8784-1-git-send-email-thieule@chromium.org>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:47:55PM -0700, Thieu Le wrote:
> Export do_fallocate() so layered file systems such as ecryptfs can take
> advantage of this interface. Existing interfaces to the fallocate
> facilities require a file descriptor which is not available to layered
> file systems.
Details, please. do_fallocate() does shitloads of checks, probably pointless
for ecryptfs and its ilk, but I want to see users for that export before
I can say whether it's OK or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 21:47 [PATCH] vfs: Export do_fallocate() to kernel modules Thieu Le
2011-08-23 21:59 ` Al Viro [this message]
[not found] ` <CAEcckGqfDUt=b9gdQAJHug__eht2tQymg95UXp3rERBp+oyDvg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-23 22:13 ` Thieu Le
2011-08-23 22:13 ` Thieu Le
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