Re: posix_fallocate question again

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:07:10PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> This has been brought up by Ulrich more than 3 years ago:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=95569775802945&w=2

Note that the design for posix_fallocate is stupid.  We really want
a 64bit len argument even on 32bit machines.

> Is there anytime soon that kernel 2.6 will have such functionality?

On XFS you can use ioctl(.., XFS_IOC_RESVSP64, ..)

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