Fwd: application control of pre-allocation

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:13:36PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> 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)

It's a SET_FILE_ALLOCATION followed by a set file size I think.

Jeremy.