On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:15:33AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > Given that glibc already has to support this for older kernels, I > > would argue that there's no point putting in generic support for > > filesystem that can't support a more advanced way of doing things. > > Well, I'm sure the kernel can do better than the code we have in libc > now. The kernel has access to the bitmasks which say which blocks have > already been allocated.
The layer of the kernel where a totally generic fallback would be implemented does not have access to this information. We could do a mostly generic helper for block filesystems that allows to implement fallocate this way without a lot of their own code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
