From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agminet02.oracle.com (agminet02.oracle.com [141.146.126.229]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l6J4nDbm007442 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:49:15 -0700 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (agminet01.oracle.com [141.146.126.228]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l6J3gAOp019626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:42:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:41:55 -0700 From: Mark Fasheh Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate Message-ID: <20070719034155.GE32734@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh References: <20070713184125.GA12156@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070713184625.GB12156@amitarora.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070713184625.GB12156@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: "Amit K. Arora" Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, tytso@mit.edu, cmm@us.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, dgc@sgi.com, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:16:25AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed not to fail because > of lack of disk space. If a write to an unwritten region requires a node split, that could result in the allocation of new meta data which obviously could fail if the disk is truly full. Granted that's unlikely to happen but maybe we should be conservative and say something like: "After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed to never require allocation of file data." ? --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com