On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Following is the modified version of the manpage originally submitted by
> David Chinner. Please use `nroff -man fallocate.2 | less` to view.
>
> This includes changes suggested by Heikki Orsila and Barry Naujok.
Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on?
> .TH fallocate 2
> .SH NAME
> fallocate \- allocate or remove file space
If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong.
maybe - "manipulate file space" instead?
dd> .TP
> .B FALLOC_RESV_SPACE
> provides the same functionality as
> .B FALLOC_ALLOCATE
> except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation
> of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising
"of zeroed blocks"
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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