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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs:  add fallocate command to xfs_io
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:27:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515172711.GA23630@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515171324.GA14804@infradead.org>

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 07:30:13PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Based on Dave's earlier patch, but now we have an fallocate
> > glibc call... this also adds autoconf magic and a manpage 
> > update.
> > 
> > (hopefully not too #ifdef-heavy....)
> 
> Looks good to me and seems to work.

Actually that was spoken too fast.  On my Debian -testing system it
detects fallocate as available because <linux/falloc.h> exists, but the
glibc doesn't actually support a falloc(3) yet.  So either the detection
needs to be improved or we need to use the raw syscall.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-15 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-11  0:30 [PATCH] xfsprogs: add fallocate command to xfs_io Eric Sandeen
2009-05-15 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-15 17:27   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-05-15 18:50     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-15 22:11       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-16 20:40         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-16 22:08           ` Eric Sandeen

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