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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:45:16 +0530
From: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, adilger@...sterfs.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:13:34PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> >
> > Why don't we just merge the interface for preallocation (essentially
> > enough to satisfy posix_fallocate() and the simple XFS requirement for
> > space reservation without changing file size), which there is clear agreement
> > on (I hope :)). After all, this was all that we set out to do when we
> > started.
> >
> > And leave all the dealloc/punch/hsm type features for separate future patches/
> > debates, those really shouldn't hold up the basic fallocate interface.
> > I agree with Christoph that we are just diverging too much in trying to
> > club those decisions here.
> >
> > Dave, Andreas, Ted ?
>
> Sure. I'll just make XFS work with whatever it is that gets merged.
Great. I will post the new patches soon.
--
Regards,
Amit Arora
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