[Gluster-devel] fallocate

[Vijay Bellur]

On 11/17/2013 02:59 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Anand Avati <avati at gluster.org> wrote:
>
>> If you call fallocate() over an existing region with data it shouldn't be
>> wiped with 0s. You can also call fallocate() on a hole (in case file was
>> ftruncate()ed to a large size) and that region should get "allocated" (i.e
>> future write to an fallocated() region should NOT fail with ENOSPC).
>
> fallocate stuff appears both in fuse and posix xlators. I understand the
> fuse one is only used if the kernel sends a FALLOCATE FUSE FOP, which
> means I can just #ifndef __NetBSD__ it our, since the NetBSD kernel has
> no fallocate() system call, and will never issue that FOP. Am I right?

Yes, that would be right.

>
> Wild guess: the FALLOCATE FOP is tunnelled thorugh all glusterfs
> xlators, and not supporting it in the posix xlator would mean a NetBSD
> brick would not be able to honour requests from a Linux client using
> that FOP. Am I right?
>

Right again.

On a different note, would it be easier if a NetBSD build was triggered 
for every commit through Jenkins? That way, we might realise build 
issues on NetBSD automatically. Do you happen to know if a jenkins slave 
agent can be setup on NetBSD 6?

-Vijay