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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, hch@infradead.org,
	adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	lczerner@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:56:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140331145625.GA10791@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396277611-10759-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:53:31PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> This flag will work opposite to the newly added FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE flag.
> As such, specifying FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE flag will insert zeroed-out space
> in between the file within the range specified by offset and len. User can
> write new data in this space. e.g. ads.
> Like collapse range, currently we have the limitation that offset and len
> should be block size aligned for both XFS and Ext4.

Btw, I remember Samsung also had an ioctl for XFS to split a file into
two without moving the data, do you plan to submit that one as well?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31 14:53 [PATCH 0/3] fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate Namjae Jeon
2014-03-31 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-04-01  0:19   ` Namjae Jeon
2014-04-08  0:54 ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-08 14:42   ` Namjae Jeon

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