Re: fallocate for FFS

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:24:15PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > I will try to figure it out, since its not yet implemented the syscall is a
>  > good way to start dev in BSD kernel.
> 
> I'm not sure about that; many people have started looking at it and
> not got anywhere.

It is true that adding a system call is an easy entry point to learn about 
the kernel. But here the syscall is the easy part, the real work is modifying
FFS code to suport it, and that is a steep learning curve.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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