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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] tmpfs: add fallocate support
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:09:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC361C0.7040309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLEXbWbEhqX2YfzcQhyLJrY0H2ifCJCvGkoFHZsYAZEMPA@mail.gmail.com>

ao? 2011a1'11ae??15ae?JPY 19:23, Pekka Enberg a??e??:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Amerigo Wang<amwang@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> This patch adds fallocate support to tmpfs. I tested this patch
>> with the following test case,
>>
>>         % sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=100 tmpfs /mnt
>>         % touch /mnt/foobar
>>         % echo hi>  /mnt/foobar
>>         % fallocate -o 3 -l 5000 /mnt/foobar
>>         fallocate: /mnt/foobar: fallocate failed: No space left on device
>>         % fallocate -o 3 -l 3000 /mnt/foobar
>>         % ls -l /mnt/foobar
>>         -rw-rw-r-- 1 wangcong wangcong 3003 Nov 15 16:10 /mnt/foobar
>>         % dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foobar seek=3 bs=1 count=3000
>>         3000+0 records in
>>         3000+0 records out
>>         3000 bytes (3.0 kB) copied, 0.0153224 s, 196 kB/s
>>         % hexdump -C /mnt/foobar
>>         00000000  68 69 0a 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |hi..............|
>>         00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
>>         *
>>         00000bb0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00                 |...........|
>>         00000bbb
>>         % cat /mnt/foobar
>>         hi
>>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong<amwang@redhat.com>
>
> What's the use case for this?
>

Hi, Pekka,

Systemd needs it, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/20/275.
I am adding Kay into Cc.

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  8:42 [Patch] tmpfs: add fallocate support Amerigo Wang
2011-11-15 10:23 ` Cong Wang
2011-11-15 17:43   ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-16  7:21     ` Cong Wang
2011-11-16 23:21       ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-15 11:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-16  7:09   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2011-11-16  7:12     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-16  7:16       ` Cong Wang
2011-11-17  1:31         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-18 10:27           ` Cong Wang
2011-11-16  1:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-16  7:12   ` Cong Wang

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