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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Daniel Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@google.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org, nauman@google.com, egouriou@google.com,
	tirea@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fallocate: enable fallocate options on Linux
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:41:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4F8A7E.1010206@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAK6Zt3fiTZpmkK6tyMVOAWAdL4FZgOTAa7SE2U6d80-tRanxg@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/29/2012 10:22 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd just like to clarify: I'm not sure if the patch I just sent is
> exactly what we'd want. Maybe it is correct to set FIO_HAVE_FALLOCATE
> on some Linux systems which aren't at least glibc version 2.8. I don't
> know much about the history of these features, and if any fio users
> are using an older system where they do still want fallocate
> capabilities, I'd appreciate input here.

There is something a bit wonky there. We should be able to use
posix_fallocate() from 2.6 and on, but only the linux fallocate from 2.8
and up.

Something like the below.

diff --git a/os/os-linux.h b/os/os-linux.h
index 3bf6bd9..d5c3f76 100644
--- a/os/os-linux.h
+++ b/os/os-linux.h
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
  * Can only enable this for newer glibcs, or the header and defines are
  * missing
  */
+#if __GLIBC__ >= 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 6
+#define FIO_HAVE_FALLOCATE
+#endif
 #if __GLIBC__ >= 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 8
 #define FIO_HAVE_LINUX_FALLOCATE
 #endif

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 20:54 [PATCH] fallocate: enable fallocate options on Linux Dan Ehrenberg
2012-02-29 21:22 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2012-03-01 14:41   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2012-03-01 19:23     ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2012-03-01 20:16       ` Jens Axboe

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