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linux/Documentation/filesystems
Christoph Hellwig 2fe17c1075 fallocate should be a file operation
Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit.  Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes.  On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions.   Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.

This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-17 02:25:31 -05:00
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caching
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pohmelfs
9p.txt
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adfs.txt
affs.txt
afs.txt
autofs4-mount-control.txt
automount-support.txt
befs.txt
bfs.txt
btrfs.txt
ceph.txt
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
debugfs.txt
devpts.txt
directory-locking
dlmfs.txt
dnotify_test.c
dnotify.txt
ecryptfs.txt
exofs.txt
ext2.txt
ext3.txt
ext4.txt
fiemap.txt
files.txt
fuse.txt
gfs2-glocks.txt
gfs2-uevents.txt
gfs2.txt
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt
inotify.txt
isofs.txt
jfs.txt
Locking fallocate should be a file operation 2011-01-17 02:25:31 -05:00
locks.txt
logfs.txt
Makefile
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nilfs2.txt
ntfs.txt
ocfs2.txt
omfs.txt
path-lookup.txt
porting Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin 2011-01-13 20:14:13 -08:00
proc.txt oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down 2011-01-13 17:32:35 -08:00
quota.txt
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
relay.txt
romfs.txt
seq_file.txt
sharedsubtree.txt
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt
sysfs-pci.txt
sysfs-tagging.txt
sysfs.txt
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt
ubifs.txt
udf.txt
ufs.txt
vfat.txt
vfs.txt Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount() 2011-01-15 20:07:48 -05:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
xfs.txt
xip.txt