Hi, On Friday 11 November 2005 00:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support > > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality > > (in the future). > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113036713810002&w=2 > > > > What I am wondering is, should I invest time now to do it ? > > I haven't even heard anyone mention a need for this in the past 1-2 years. Because the people need it are usally at the application level. It would be useful with hard disk editing. But this would need a move_blocks within the filesystem, which could attach a given list of blocks to another file. E.g. mremap() for files :-) Both together would make harddisk video editing with linux quite performant and less error prone. Regards Ingo Oeser
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