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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:33:04 -0400 From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com> To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>, Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Question on fallocate/ftruncate sequence (and flags) >> >> I'm confused (again?) :). I don't see FS_FALLOC_FL in the latest kernel >> source, and ext2 (well, my ext2 anyway) can't do fallocate(). Google >> (well, my google search) can't find it either. Is this something in >> your tree? > > I think I recall Google working on a patch for fallocate on ext2, but > it was vetoed from upstream inclusion because we don't want to flog > a dead horse. Is that ext2 patch still around? I'm doing some r&d via ext2 and it might handy to have fallocate() for it. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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