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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:41:55 -0700 From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com> To: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, tytso@....edu, cmm@...ibm.com, suparna@...ibm.com, adilger@...sterfs.com, dgc@....com, michael.kerrisk@....net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:16:25AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed not to fail because > of lack of disk space. If a write to an unwritten region requires a node split, that could result in the allocation of new meta data which obviously could fail if the disk is truly full. Granted that's unlikely to happen but maybe we should be conservative and say something like: "After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed to never require allocation of file data." ? --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@...cle.com - 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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