From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denis Barbier Subject: Unable to parse a sentence in sync_file_range.2 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:32:23 +0100 Message-ID: <7b3bdec71002181532o4ed24f53j121c3923ea7fa8df@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, When translating sync_file_range.2 I had been confused by this sentence: 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. Denis -- 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