From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A480D7F3F for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:03:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92EB48F8070 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id FFGgjLoBJwO3uBd1 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:03:33 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfs: fold xfs_change_file_space into xfs_ioc_space Message-ID: <20131016070333.GA18721@infradead.org> References: <20131012075503.370510641@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131012075640.637625757@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131014050807.GJ4446@dastard> <20131015153143.GA1612@infradead.org> <20131015214733.GW4446@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131015214733.GW4446@dastard> 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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:47:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > I'll put a significant quantity of beer on the table if anyone other > than xfstests is actually using these ioctls. In all my years of > working with XFS, I've never seen a single user of them, even on > Irix. > > The one person I know who was considering using XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP > convinced me (quite easily) to implement XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE for them > because writing all those zeros to re-initialise pre-allocated VM > images was going to be prohibitively expensive... > > Anyway, it was just a thought. Send a patch to warn on their usage, and you might be the lucky owner of a beer or two a few years down the road :) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs