From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Cabot, Mason B" <mason.b.cabot@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tridge@samba.com
Subject: Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 16:38:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4638F6DF.7020400@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070502193456.GE19442@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> FYI, we are currently closing on a new system call so that
> glibc's fallocate() will be able to call into the appropriate
> per-filesystem routines in a portable way, since ext4 will have
> persistent preallocation support.
Yep.
> I think we mostly have consensus on a calling convention which
> all of the architectures (s390, power, arm, ia64, etc.); of course
> then we will need to get glibc to support the new system call.
glibc has had support for a while, in emulated form:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.1/1153.html
So when kernel support arrives, it should be easy and (hopefully)
seamless to plug in the new syscall.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 20:43 Ext3 vs NTFS performance Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-01 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 12:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 16:04 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 18:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 19:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 16:16 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 18:08 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-05-02 19:34 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 20:38 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-02 22:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 3:54 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-05-02 15:46 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 15:44 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 19:46 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 0:15 ` David Chinner
2007-05-03 12:57 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 21:14 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-03 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-04 8:12 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 14:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 15:49 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-04 18:41 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-05 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-06 20:59 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-04 12:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-04 19:40 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-04 18:56 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-04 19:52 ` Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-07 14:31 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-12 23:47 ` Update: " Cabot, Mason B
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-03 3:51 Al Boldi
2007-05-05 3:13 Xu CanHao
2007-05-05 13:45 ` Theodore Tso
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[not found] ` <8huGm-2W4-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-05 22:25 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-06 5:04 ` Xu CanHao
2007-05-06 1:48 Albert Cahalan
[not found] <8gShI-3hY-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h1bh-8sG-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h2Al-280-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8hW9y-2Lp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-07 11:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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