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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:13:34 +1000 From: David Chinner <dgc@....com> To: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, adilger@...sterfs.com, David Chinner <dgc@....com>, cmm@...ibm.com, xfs@....sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate 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. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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