[PATCH RESEND 4/7] xfsprogs: xfsio: add support FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for fallocate

Rich Johnston rjohnston at sgi.com
Fri Oct 18 17:45:22 CDT 2013


Sorry if there are others please let me know.

On 10/18/2013 05:44 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:24:22PM -0500, Rich Johnston wrote:
>> This has been committed.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --Rich
>>
>> commit e64190f8440286a815060524777b435e06a7b364
>> Author: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon at samsung.com>
>> Date:   Sun Oct 6 20:13:38 2013 +0000
>>
>>      [RESEND, 4/7] xfsprogs: xfsio: add support
>> FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for fallocate
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> This isn't ready for being committed into xfsprogs. The kernel code
> is still under review, and until we actually have it in a tree to be
> merged int eh kernel, we shoul d't be making any userspace changes
> at all. Indeed, there's a chance (unlikely, but still there) that
> this code may still not end up in the kernel at all...
>
> So, it's probably best right now to revert this patch until we have
> the fallocate API support merged into the kernel...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>



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