On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 07:48:58PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Ok. Since we have only one flag (FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) and we do not want
> to declare the default mode (FALLOC_ALLOCATE), we can _just_ have this
> flag and remove the other mode too (FALLOC_RESV_SPACE).
> Is this what you are suggesting ?
Yes.
> Should we need a header file just to declare one flag - i.e.
> FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE (since now there is no point of declaring the two
> modes) ? If "linux/fs.h" is not a good place, will "asm-generic/fcntl.h"
> be a sane place for this flag ?
It might sound a litte silly but is the cleanest thing we could do by
far. And I suspect there will be more more flags soon..
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