Fwd: application control of pre-allocation

[Steve French]

Amit,
What is the exact fallocate syntax?  I was having trouble deciphering
the pieces of the raw man page source and related thread that I saw on
lkml

I am trying to decide if this is a trivial mapping to cifs transact 2
(to send over the network to e.g. a file mounted from a Windows or
Samba server)

jra,
Are you assuming that this is simply a call to
SMB_SET_FILE_ALLOCATION_INFO2 (level 0x3fb)?  If so this may be easy
but I was not sure if the syntax matched. Interesting that on the
server side although there aren't any calls to this new sys call yet
in Samba of course, it looks like Samba source/smbd/trans2.c in
function smb_set_allocation_info could handle this efficiently on some
OS - through overriding in vfs_allocate_file_space (source/smbd/vfs.c)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
Date: Jul 25, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: application control of pre-allocation
To: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
Cc: jra at samba.org


On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:43:24PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Any thoughts about whether we should extend an operation to handle
> this new sys call or if it is already handleable?

This is already handled as a couple of trans2 operations.

Jeremy.


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Thanks,

Steve