From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:32:54 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() Message-Id: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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). > > 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. > Or wait till need arises ? A long wait, I suspect.. -- 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