From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH] manpage: update FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE flag in fallocate
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:49:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006a01d049cd$d914d990$8b3e8cb0$@samsung.com> (raw)
Update FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE flag in fallocate.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
---
man2/fallocate.2 | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/fallocate.2 b/man2/fallocate.2
index adf42db..9b3c460 100644
--- a/man2/fallocate.2
+++ b/man2/fallocate.2
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
.\" 2011-09-19: Added FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
.\" 2011-09-19: Substantial restructuring of the page
.\"
-.TH FALLOCATE 2 2015-01-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FALLOCATE 2 2015-02-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fallocate \- manipulate file space
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -225,6 +225,56 @@ XFS (since Linux 3.14)
.IP *
ext4, for extent-based files (since Linux 3.14)
.\" commit b8a8684502a0fc852afa0056c6bb2a9273f6fcc0
+.SS Increasing file space
+.\" TODO: Mention commit id and supporting Linux version
+Specifying the
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE
+flag in
+.I mode
+will increase the file space by inserting a hole within the file size without
+overwriting any existing data. The hole will start at
+.I offset
+and continue for
+.I len
+bytes. For inserting hole inside file, the contents of the file starting at
+.I offset
+will be shifted towards right by
+.I len
+bytes. Inserting a hole inside the file will increase the file size by
+.I len
+bytes.
+
+This mode has the same limitation as
+.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+regarding the
+granularity of the operation.
+If the granulrity requirements are not met,
+.BR fallocate ()
+will fail with the error
+.BR EINVAL.
+If the
+.I offset
+overlaps with end of file OR if it is greater than end of file, an error is
+returned. For such type of operations, i.e. inserting a hole at the end of
+file,
+.BR ftruncate(2)
+should be used.
+In case
+.IR offset + len
+exceeds the maximum file size, errno will be set to
+.B EFBIG.
+
+No other flags may be specified in
+.IR mode
+in conjunction with
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE .
+
+As of Linux XXXX,
+.\" TODO: Mention commit id and supporting Linux version
+.B FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE
+is supported by
+ext4 (only for extent-based files) and XFS.
+
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success,
.BR fallocate ()
@@ -242,6 +292,12 @@ is not a valid file descriptor, or is not opened for writing.
.IR offset + len
exceeds the maximum file size.
.TP
+.B EFBIG
+.I mode
+is
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE ,
+the current file size+len excceds the maximum file size.
+.TP
.B EINTR
A signal was caught during execution.
.TP
@@ -270,7 +326,17 @@ reaches or passes the end of the file.
.B EINVAL
.I mode
is
-.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE ,
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE
+and the range specified by
+.I offset
+reaches or passes the end of the file.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I mode
+is
+.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+or
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE ,
but either
.I offset
or
@@ -279,18 +345,24 @@ is not a multiple of the filesystem block size.
.TP
.B EINVAL
.I mode
-contains both
+contains either of
.B FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+or
+.B FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE
and other flags;
no other flags are permitted with
-.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE .
+.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+or
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE .
.TP
.B EINVAL
.I mode
is
.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
or
-.BR FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE ,
+.BR FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
+or
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE ,
but the file referred to by
.I fd
is not a regular file.
@@ -342,6 +414,8 @@ specifies
.BR FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
or
.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+or
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE
and
the file referred to by
.I fd
@@ -360,7 +434,9 @@ refers to a pipe or FIFO.
.B ETXTBSY
.I mode
specifies
-.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE ,
+.BR FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
+or
+.BR FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE ,
but the file referred to by
.IR fd
is currently being executed.
--
1.8.5.5
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