From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9MLIp6l021424 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:18:51 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9033210D1503 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id S5iFDDgeqDDJFmm5 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:20:34 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: does XFS supports hole punching ? Message-ID: <20081022212034.GQ18495@disturbed> References: <5d96567b0810221040m17d73871iff00d56bf07479c2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d96567b0810221040m17d73871iff00d56bf07479c2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Raz Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:40:26PM +0200, Raz wrote: > I want to punch a hole in an exiting file. Yes. Check the man page for xfsctl(3) and read up on XFS_IOC_FREESP64. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com