Re: preallocate near a specified block

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:38:27PM +0100, Roger Willcocks wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've put together a 'preallocate near' ioctl, which I've been using in
> anger for several months now. The changes are pretty minimal, and boil
> down to making xfs_bmap think it's extending a file instead of doing
> an initial allocation.
> ...
> Any interest?

Definately.

Have you tweaked xfs_io to be able to exercise this functionality
too?  (also describing it in the xfsctl man page would be good).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan