A feature??

2007-05-20 Thread Chris Lee
I am not a FS guru so please tell me where to get off if I sound stupid. After lurking for some time I have come up with something that may be of interest as a feature: If EXT4 were to pr-allocate a configurable amount of space for a special file and then use that file as a new EXT4

Re: A feature??

2007-05-20 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I am not a FS guru so please tell me where to get off if I sound stupid. After lurking for some time I have come up with something that may be of interest as a feature: If EXT4 were to pr-allocate a configurable amount of space for a special file and then use that file as a new EXT4

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE4] fallocate system call

2007-05-20 Thread Mingming Cao
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 23:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 19:41:15 +0530 Amit K. Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. I merged the first

Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE2] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-20 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:39:32AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:10 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:36 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: We've missed the -rc1 merge window, so the goal should be to make sure that everything in the series file before