Re: [Patch] tmpfs: add fallocate support

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Nov 16 2011 - 02:12:16 EST


On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Cong Wang wrote:
What's the use case for this?

Systemd needs it, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/20/275.
I am adding Kay into Cc.

The post doesn't mention why it needs it, though.

Pekka
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