From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1F76B0069 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:03:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:03:26 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH] tmpfs: add fallocate support Message-ID: <20111119100326.GA27967@infradead.org> References: <1321612791-4764-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1321612791-4764-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Cong Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg , Hugh Dickins , Dave Hansen , Lennart Poettering , Kay Sievers , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm@kvack.org On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 06:39:50PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote: > It seems that systemd needs tmpfs to support fallocate, > see http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/20/275. This patch adds > fallocate support to tmpfs. What for exactly? Please explain why preallocating on tmpfs would make any sense. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org