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From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fallocate.2: add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag definition
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:07:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289840876-3546-1-git-send-email-josef@redhat.com> (raw)

This patch adds the relevant documenation for using fallocate with the
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE mode.  This information comes from the implementation of
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE that I've posted along with this man page update to outline
the definition for hole punching.  Obviously this patch is dependant upon the
current implementation being accepted.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
---
 man2/fallocate.2 |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/fallocate.2 b/man2/fallocate.2
index 42eefbd..1b28916 100644
--- a/man2/fallocate.2
+++ b/man2/fallocate.2
@@ -31,9 +31,8 @@ bytes.
 
 The
 .I mode
-argument determines the operation to be performed on the given range.
-Currently only one flag is supported for
-.IR mode :
+argument determines the operation to be performed on the given range, the
+value can be one of the following:
 .TP
 .B FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE
 This flag allocates and initializes to zero the disk space
@@ -50,6 +49,16 @@ the file size (as reported by
 .BR stat (2))
 even if it is less than
 .IR offset + len .
+.TP
+.B FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
+This flag de-allocates the disk space within the range specified by
+.I offset
+and
+.IR len .
+This call preserves the file size (as reported by
+.BR stat (2)),
+the only change will be to the amount of space used by the file.  After a
+successful call, subsequent reads from this range will return 0's.
 .\"
 .\" Note from Amit Arora:
 .\" There were few more flags which were discussed, but none of
-- 
1.6.6.1


             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15 17:07 Josef Bacik [this message]
2011-09-19  5:08 ` [PATCH] fallocate.2: add FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag definition Michael Kerrisk
     [not found]   ` <CAKgNAkj-jPR-9hyuxrJ74uu3Kdv9bATrfCUedoty4dJOCh2GcA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-19  6:32     ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-21  4:11   ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-21  5:25     ` Andreas Dilger
2011-09-21  5:49       ` Michael Kerrisk

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