From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Rare xfsqa test failure Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:40:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20090819164014.GA17665@infradead.org> References: <20090818170705.GI5931@webber.adilger.int> <20090818214218.GK28560@mit.edu> <4A8C1A04.1090501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Tso , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42272 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435AbZHSQk1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:40:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A8C1A04.1090501@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > If so, that calls ltp's fsstress, which does not call fallocate nor > posix_fallocate. It only does preallocation on xfs via the old > xfs-specific ioctl (though I suppose we should add it...) Which in modern kernels is implemented in common code and gets routed to ->falllocate.