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authorNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>2014-02-24 10:58:15 +1100
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2014-02-24 10:58:15 +1100
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fs: Add new flag(FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) for fallocate
This patch is in response of the following post: http://lwn.net/Articles/556136/ "ext4: introduce two new ioctls" Dave chinner suggested that truncate_block_range (which was one of the ioctls name) should be a fallocate operation and not any fs specific ioctl, hence we add this functionality to new flags of fallocate. This new functionality of collapsing range could be used by media editing tools which does non linear editing to quickly purge and edit parts of a media file. This will immensely improve the performance of these operations. The limitation of fs block size aligned offsets can be easily handled by media codecs which are encapsulated in a conatiner as they have to just change the offset to next keyframe value to match the proper alignment. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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