linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys

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Message-ID: <20070301203118.GL15090@samba1>
Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:31:18 -0800
From:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, suparna@...ibm.com,
	cmm@...ibm.com, alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:23:19PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I certainly agree that we want something like this.
> 
> posix_fallocate() is the glibc interface we want to be compatible with 
> (which your definition is, AFAICS).

This would be great for Samba. Windows clients do this a lot....

Jeremy.
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