From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAGM1IKM025783 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:01:18 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id jAGM14Ia040674 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:01:04 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAGM1HsQ020540 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:01:17 -0700 Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() From: Badari Pulavarty In-Reply-To: <20051113150906.GA2193@spitz.ucw.cz> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> <20051113150906.GA2193@spitz.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:01:10 -0800 Message-Id: <1132178470.24066.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andrew Morton , andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, lkml , linux-mm List-ID: On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:09 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support > > > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality > > > (in the future). > > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113036713810002&w=2 > > > > > > What I am wondering is, should I invest time now to do it ? > > > > I haven't even heard anyone mention a need for this in the past 1-2 years. > > Some database people wanted it maybe month ago. It was replaced by some > madvise hack... Hmm. Someone other than me asking for it ? I did the madvise() hack and asking to see if any one really needs sys_punchole(). Thanks, Badari -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org