From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mBJ8xIdq002409 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:59:20 -0600 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:59:12 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls Message-ID: <20081219085912.GA30293@infradead.org> References: <494ABEBC.8060101@ankitjain.org> <20081219043744.GC17177@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081219043744.GC17177@disturbed> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Ankit Jain , Al Viro , mfasheh@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joel.becker@oracle.com, Christoph Hellwig , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:37:44PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > XFS_IOC_RESVSP supports invisible I/O, and that means > XFS_IOC_RESVSP needs to be passed through to vfs_ioctl() > to vector to XFS to handle. When the current XFS git tree gets merged to mainline before this patch. invisible I/O handling is now FMODE_NOCMTIME in file->f_flags which this patch will pass through to the filesystem. We just need to chage xfs_vn_fallocate ot honour it. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs