Re: about XFS_IOC_RESVSP

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Joe Hsu wrote:
>         I pre-allocate blocks for a file. Then I use "open" and "write" system
> calls to generate the content for that file. After the file is really
> written to the disk,
> I want to set all the extent(s) of that file unwritten. Then I will
> write new content to
> the same file. Is that possible? That means:
> I want to dis-care the content just written and use the same allocated blocks.
> In another words, I want to restore the state of the file to the state
> when it was
> first pre-allocated.
> 
>         Why am I doing this? Why not just over-write it? When doing
> partial over-writing,
> some blocks may be read for partial update before they are written
> out. This hurts
> some IO performance and If I can, I would prefer to dis-care old
> content of the file and
> use same (pre)allocated blocks. (In my case, I am doing intensive IO.)
> 
>         Any one can give me some hints? Thanks.
> 

Do you really need the exact same blocks?  What if you just truncate to
0 & re-allocate?

-Eric

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