From: Ankit Jain Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] [PATCH][RFC] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:20:29 +0530 Message-ID: <494A1CE5.8020007@ankitjain.org> References: <49460F88.2080408@ankitjain.org> <20081217202815.GE8791@wotan.suse.de> <494969C6.4090500@sandeen.net> <20081217211550.GF8791@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Sandeen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joel.becker@oracle.com, Christoph Hellwig , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com To: Mark Fasheh Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.234]:57305 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751595AbYLRJvD (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:51:03 -0500 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f11so172095qba.17 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:51:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081217211550.GF8791@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:06:14PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Actually, yeah agreed - I take that back. Old users are already getting them > from file system headers, new ones should use fallocate. So there's no need > to expose the ioctls to userspace, at least not if all we're talking about > is the RESVP ioctls. Makes sense. So I can just keep them in falloc.h in a #ifdef __KERNEL__ ? Or should this be in a new ioctl.h ? -Ankit > --Mark > > -- > Mark Fasheh