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Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/falloc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/falloc.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h index 5ff562ddac0b..d1197ae3723c 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/falloc.h @@ -27,4 +27,18 @@ */ #define FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE 0x08 +/* + * FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably + * without issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that + * span holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to + * unwritten extents - even though file system may choose to zero out the + * extent or do whatever which will result in reading zeros from the range + * while the range remains allocated for the file. + * + * This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as + * with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE should cause the inode + * size to remain the same. + */ +#define FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE 0x10 + #endif /* _UAPI_FALLOC_H_ */ |