Re: [xfs-masters] [PATCH][RFC] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls

Ankit Jain
2008-12-18T09:51:21Z

Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:06:14PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Actually, yeah agreed - I take that back. Old users are already getting them
> from file system headers, new ones should use fallocate. So there's no need
> to expose the ioctls to userspace, at least not if all we're talking about
> is the RESVP ioctls.

Makes sense. So I can just keep them in falloc.h in a #ifdef __KERNEL__ ? Or
should this be in a new ioctl.h ?

-Ankit

> --Mark
>
> --
> Mark Fasheh