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From: David Chinner
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate
Date: Friday, July 13, 2007 - 7:06 am

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:16:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:

Can we get itemised change logs for all these patches from now on?


If fallocate is just being used for allocating space this is wrong.
maybe - "manipulate file space" instead?

dd> .TP

"of zeroed blocks"

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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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[PATCH 0/6][TAKE7] fallocate system call, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:38 am)
[PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:46 am)
[PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86 ..., Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:47 am)
[PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:48 am)
[PATCH 4/6][TAKE7] ext4: fallocate support in ext4, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:50 am)
[PATCH 5/6][TAKE7] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:52 am)
[PATCH 6/6][TAKE7] ext4: change for better extent-to-group ..., Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 5:52 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Jul 13, 6:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fa ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Jul 13, 6:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate, David Chinner, (Fri Jul 13, 7:06 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, ..., Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 7:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate, Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 7:27 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fa ..., Amit K. Arora, (Fri Jul 13, 7:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/6][TAKE7] fallocate() implementation in i386, ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Jul 13, 7:46 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate, Michael Kerrisk, (Sat Jul 14, 1:23 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/6][TAKE7] manpage for fallocate, Amit K. Arora, (Sun Jul 15, 10:32 pm)
fallocate() man page, Michael Kerrisk, (Sun Jul 22, 11:09 pm)
Re: fallocate() man page, Amit K. Arora, (Mon Jul 23, 6:10 am)
Re: fallocate() man page, David Chinner, (Tue Jul 24, 12:06 am)
Re: fallocate() man page, Michael Kerrisk, (Sun Jul 29, 11:21 pm)
Re: fallocate() man page, Michael Kerrisk, (Mon Jul 30, 12:43 pm)
fallocate() man page - darft 2, Michael Kerrisk, (Mon Jul 30, 12:44 pm)
Re: fallocate() man page, Amit K. Arora, (Tue Jul 31, 6:56 am)
Re: fallocate() man page - darft 2, Amit K. Arora, (Thu Aug 2, 10:36 am)
Re: fallocate() man page - darft 2, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri Aug 3, 4:59 am)
Re: fallocate() man page - darft 2, Amit K. Arora, (Sun Aug 5, 11:10 pm)