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From: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	michael.kerrisk@gmx.net, tytso@mit.edu, cmm@us.ibm.com,
	suparna@in.ibm.com, adilger@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:57:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713142723.GC27291@amitarora.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713140651.GO31489@sgi.com>

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:06:51AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> 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?

Sure.
 
> > .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?

Yes, it needs to be changed.
 
> 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"

Ok.

--
Regards,
Amit Arora

> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> Principal Engineer
> SGI Australian Software Group

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 12:38 [PATCH 0/6][TAKE7] fallocate system call Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:46 ` [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 14:06   ` David Chinner
2007-07-13 14:27     ` Amit K. Arora [this message]
2007-07-14  8:23   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-16  5:32     ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-23  6:09       ` fallocate() man page Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 13:10         ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-24  7:06           ` David Chinner
2007-07-30  6:21             ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-30 19:43           ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-31 13:56             ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-30 19:44           ` fallocate() man page - darft 2 Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-02 17:36             ` Amit K. Arora
2007-08-03 11:59               ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-06  6:10                 ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 13:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 14:18     ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 14:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 12:48 ` [PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 13:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-13 14:28     ` Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:50 ` [PATCH 4/6][TAKE7] ext4: fallocate support in ext4 Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:52 ` [PATCH 5/6][TAKE7] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks Amit K. Arora
2007-07-13 12:52 ` [PATCH 6/6][TAKE7] ext4: change for better extent-to-group alignment Amit K. Arora

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