Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> % git-log 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 |head -10
> commit 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544
> Author: David Chinner <[email protected]>
> Date:   Mon Jun 18 16:50:27 2007 +1000
> 
>     [XFS] Prevent ENOSPC from aborting transactions that need to succeed
> 
>     During delayed allocation extent conversion or unwritten extent
>     conversion, we need to reserve some blocks for transactions reservations.
>     We need to reserve these blocks in case a btree split occurs and we need
>     to allocate some blocks.
> 
> ------
> 
> IOWs, XFS didn't provide this guarantee until about a month ago....

Ok, once again XFS is ahead of the curve ;)

Comment rescinded then...
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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