[PATCH 0/3] fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate

[Namjae Jeon]

2014-03-31 23:56 GMT+09:00 Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:53:31PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> This flag will work opposite to the newly added FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE flag.
>> As such, specifying FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE flag will insert zeroed-out space
>> in between the file within the range specified by offset and len. User can
>> write new data in this space. e.g. ads.
>> Like collapse range, currently we have the limitation that offset and len
>> should be block size aligned for both XFS and Ext4.
>
> Btw, I remember Samsung also had an ioctl for XFS to split a file into
> two without moving the data, do you plan to submit that one as well?
>
Hi Christoph.
Sure, I'm planning to introduce FS_IOC_MOVE_DATA ioctl that can split
file as well as merging for xfs and ext4.
I already started to implement it. and will post it soon.

Thanks.