Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

[JÃrn Engel]

On Mon, 5 March 2007 07:08:03 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> JÃrn Engel wrote:
> > Does the allocation have to be persistent beyond lifetime of the file
> > descriptor?
> 
> Of course.  You call posix_fallocate once for the lifetime of the file
> when it is created to ensure that all future uses will work.

That part is not quite clear from the manpage but I trust most people
would assume the same.

> It seems your filesystem will not be able to support this unless
> compression is turned off.

Correct.  Compression needs to be turned off for a file, if
posix_fallocate(3) is to succeed.  What I could do is disable
compression (meaning that no data written in the future will be
compressed) and rewrite all blocks within the given range.

Still, it is quite obvious that noone designing this interface has lost
much thought to compressing filesystems.  Whatever I can come up with
will either be incompatible or some sort of hack.  :(

JÃrn

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