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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:57:23 +0530 From: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: David Chinner <dgc@....com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, michael.kerrisk@....net, tytso@....edu, cmm@...ibm.com, suparna@...ibm.com, adilger@...sterfs.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:06:51AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by > > David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view. > > > > This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok. > > Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on? Sure. > > .TH fallocate 2 > > .SH NAME > > fallocate \- allocate or remove file space > > If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong. > maybe - "manipulate file space" instead? Yes, it needs to be changed. > dd> .TP > > .B FALLOC_RESV_SPACE > > provides the same functionality as > > .B FALLOC_ALLOCATE > > except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation > > of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising > > "of zeroed blocks" Ok. -- Regards, Amit Arora > -- > 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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