Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

On May 07, 2007  13:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Final point: it's fairly disappointing that the present implementation is
> ext4-only, and extent-only.  I do think we should be aiming at an ext4
> bitmap-based implementation and an ext3 implementation.

Actually, this is a non-issue.  The reason that it is handled for extent-only
is that this is the only way to allocate space in the filesystem without
doing the explicit zeroing.  For other filesystems (including ext3 and
ext4 with block-mapped files) the filesystem should return an error (e.g.
-EOPNOTSUPP) and glibc will do manual zero-filling of the file in userspace.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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