Re: fallocate for FFS

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:53:46PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus 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.

The system call is already there, also.

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David A. Holland
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