On Mar 1 2007 23:09, Dave Kleikamp wrote:

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Given that glibc already implements fallocate for all filesystems, it will
need to continue to do so for filesystems which don't implement this
syscall - otherwise applications would start breaking.

I didn't make it clear, but my point was to call generic_fallocate if
the file system did not define i_op->allocate().

if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->fallocate)
ret = inode->i_op->fallocate(inode, offset, len);
else
ret = generic_fallocate(inode, offset, len);

I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but I thought I'd throw the idea out
there.

Writing zeroes using glibc emu most likely means write() --
so generic_fallocate should be preferable (think splice).
Or does glibc use mmap() and it's all different?


Jan
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