Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate

David Chinner
2007-07-13T14:06:51Z

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by
> David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view.
>
> This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok.

Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on?

> .TH fallocate 2
> .SH NAME
> fallocate \- allocate or remove file space

If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong.
maybe - "manipulate file space" instead?

dd> .TP
> .B FALLOC_RESV_SPACE
> provides the same functionality as
> .B FALLOC_ALLOCATE
> except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation
> of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising

"of zeroed blocks"

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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group