linux-ext4 - Re: [Resubmit][Patch 0/2] Persistent preallocation in ext4

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Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:23:26 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
	alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Resubmit][Patch 0/2] Persistent preallocation in ext4

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:16:58 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> (1) The final interface is yet to be decided. We have the option of
> chosing from one of these:
> 	a> modifying posix_fallocate() in glibc
> 	b> using fcntl
> 	c> using ftruncate, or
> 	d> using the ioctl interface.

I'd suggest we add a new syscall, which implements the posix_fallocate()
API as per the relevant specs.  We can work the final details out with Ulrich
and I'm sure that glibc's posix_fallocate() will start using the syscall if it
is available.

Actually, we should implement

 asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len);

note: loff_t, not off_t.

This probably means that we'll need to implement file_operations.fallocate().

It wouldn't surprise me if XFS was able to implement fallocate() too.
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