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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:18:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support 
> for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> (in the future).

in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking
wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate...

did you find a solution to this problem ?
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10 23:23 Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 23:41   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:55     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-11  8:25   ` Ingo Oeser
2005-11-11 19:07     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-16 12:08     ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 12:20       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-13 15:09   ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-16 22:01     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 23:37       ` Ric Wheeler
2005-11-21  6:46       ` Rob Landley
2005-11-18 16:42     ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2005-11-18 16:54       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-11  5:18 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-11-16 16:05   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 16:38     ` Anton Altaparmakov

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