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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: truncate head of file?
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:26:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F43F90.6010409@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F435EC.4030601@symas.com>

On 08/19/14 22:45, Howard Chu wrote:
> Was thinking it would be very handy to have a truncate() variant that deletes pages from the head of a file. This could be leveraged to make logfiles easier to maintain, as an example. Anyone else interested, think this would be nice to have?
> 
> (Note - not the same as just punching holes in the beginning of the file - we want the beginning of the file to advance as well, past the deleted pages.)

What is a "page" of a file?

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-20  5:45 truncate head of file? Howard Chu
2014-08-20  6:26 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-08-20  6:39 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-08-20  7:00   ` Howard Chu
2014-08-20  7:31     ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-08-20  8:33       ` Howard Chu
2014-08-20 11:44         ` Ashish Sangwan
2014-08-20 22:02           ` Howard Chu
2014-08-21 18:17     ` Andreas Dilger
2014-08-21 18:59       ` Howard Chu
2014-08-22 23:22     ` Randy Dunlap
2014-08-29  5:06       ` Howard Chu

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