From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Unable to parse a sentence in sync_file_range.2 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:47:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20100614074737.GA27379@infradead.org> References: <7b3bdec71002181532o4ed24f53j121c3923ea7fa8df@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: Denis Barbier , Christoph Hellwig , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org > >> ?When writing into preallocated space, many filesystems also > >> ?require calls into the block allocator, which this system > >> ?call does not sync out to disk. > >> > >> Can someone please rephrase it? ?In particular, what does 'which' refer to? > >> Thanks. How about: Usually filesystems also need to update metadata when writing into preallocated space. This system call does not guarantee the persistance of conversions from preallocated to regularly allocated space. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html