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.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group