From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:09:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051113150906.GA2193@spitz.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org>
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...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-13 15:09 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 [this message]
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
2005-11-16 16:05 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 16:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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