From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: File perforation. Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:16:51 +0000 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <23614.1042067811@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <200301082317.XAA16132@gw.chygwyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200301082317.XAA16132@gw.chygwyn.com> To: Steve Whitehouse List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org steve@gw.chygwyn.com said: > So presumably a suitable advice value FADV_CLEAR (for example) could > be used as an addition to the POSIX values ? Nothing else that fadvise() offers actually changes the file. They're all optional -- if the kernel ignores your fadvise() call you can't even prove that it's done so. I'm not sure it's a good fit. -- dwmw2