Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-06 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 06-03-07 06:36:09, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: fallocate with the whence argument and flags is already quite complicated, I'd rather have another call for placement decisions, that would be called on an fd to do placement decissions for any further allocations

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-06 Thread Eric Sandeen
Ulrich Drepper wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: fallocate with the whence argument and flags is already quite complicated, I'd rather have another call for placement decisions, that would be called on an fd to do placement decissions for any further allocations (prealloc, write, etc) Yes,

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-06 Thread Eric Sandeen
Jan Kara wrote: On Tue 06-03-07 06:36:09, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: fallocate with the whence argument and flags is already quite complicated, I'd rather have another call for placement decisions, that would be called on an fd to do placement decissions for any further

Re: e2fsck and human intervention

2007-03-06 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Mar 06, 2007 09:27 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: OK. Given that write caching may be required for performance reasons or there might be other possible reasons which would result in preen-unrepairable fs corruption on power loss, my question is now: Is it a really bad idea to run e2fsck -y on