From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755945AbXD0Orm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755915AbXD0Orl (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:47:41 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:32769 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755889AbXD0Ork (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:47:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:43:28 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Heiko Carstens Cc: "Amit K. Arora" , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] fallocate system call Message-ID: <20070427144327.GC22949@lazybastard.org> References: <20070329115126.GB7374@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070329101010.7a2b8783.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070330071417.GI355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070417125514.GA7574@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070418130600.GW5967@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070420135146.GA21352@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070420145918.GY355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070424121632.GA10136@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426175056.GA25321@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070427121003.GA7808@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070427121003.GA7808@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 April 2007 14:10:03 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > After long discussions where at least two possible implementations > were suggested that would work on _all_ architectures you chose one > which doesn't and causes extra effort. I believe the long discussion also showed that every possible implementation has drawbacks. To me this one appeared to be the best of many bad choices. Is this implementation worse than we thought? Jörn -- The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- Allan K. Chalmers