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

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Message-ID: <20070305153535.GA23524@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:35:35 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
	alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:15:33AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Given that glibc already has to support this for older kernels, I
> > would argue that there's no point putting in generic support for
> > filesystem that can't support a more advanced way of doing things.
> 
> Well, I'm sure the kernel can do better than the code we have in libc
> now.  The kernel has access to the bitmasks which say which blocks have
> already been allocated.

The layer of the kernel where a totally generic fallback would be
implemented does not have access to this information.  We could do
a mostly generic helper for block filesystems that allows to implement
fallocate this way without a lot of their own code.
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