linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/5] fallocate system call

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Message-ID: <20070427144327.GC22949@lazybastard.org>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:43:28 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, torvalds@...l.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] fallocate system call

On Fri, 27 April 2007 14:10:03 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> After long discussions where at least two possible implementations
> were suggested that would work on _all_ architectures you chose one
> which doesn't and causes extra effort.

I believe the long discussion also showed that every possible
implementation has drawbacks.  To me this one appeared to be the best of
many bad choices.

Is this implementation worse than we thought?

Jörn

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