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      1 #ifndef _UAPI_FALLOC_H_
      2 #define _UAPI_FALLOC_H_
      3 
      4 #define FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE	0x01 /* default is extend size */
      5 #define FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE	0x02 /* de-allocates range */
      6 #define FALLOC_FL_NO_HIDE_STALE	0x04 /* reserved codepoint */
      7 
      8 /*
      9  * FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE is used to remove a range of a file
     10  * without leaving a hole in the file. The contents of the file beyond
     11  * the range being removed is appended to the start offset of the range
     12  * being removed (i.e. the hole that was punched is "collapsed"),
     13  * resulting in a file layout that looks like the range that was
     14  * removed never existed. As such collapsing a range of a file changes
     15  * the size of the file, reducing it by the same length of the range
     16  * that has been removed by the operation.
     17  *
     18  * Different filesystems may implement different limitations on the
     19  * granularity of the operation. Most will limit operations to
     20  * filesystem block size boundaries, but this boundary may be larger or
     21  * smaller depending on the filesystem and/or the configuration of the
     22  * filesystem or file.
     23  *
     24  * Attempting to collapse a range that crosses the end of the file is
     25  * considered an illegal operation - just use ftruncate(2) if you need
     26  * to collapse a range that crosses EOF.
     27  */
     28 #define FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE	0x08
     29 
     30 /*
     31  * FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably
     32  * without issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that
     33  * span holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
     34  * unwritten extents - even though file system may choose to zero out the
     35  * extent or do whatever which will result in reading zeros from the range
     36  * while the range remains allocated for the file.
     37  *
     38  * This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
     39  * with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE should cause the inode
     40  * size to remain the same.
     41  */
     42 #define FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE		0x10
     43 
     44 /*
     45  * FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE is use to insert space within the file size without
     46  * overwriting any existing data. The contents of the file beyond offset are
     47  * shifted towards right by len bytes to create a hole.  As such, this
     48  * operation will increase the size of the file by len bytes.
     49  *
     50  * Different filesystems may implement different limitations on the granularity
     51  * of the operation. Most will limit operations to filesystem block size
     52  * boundaries, but this boundary may be larger or smaller depending on
     53  * the filesystem and/or the configuration of the filesystem or file.
     54  *
     55  * Attempting to insert space using this flag at OR beyond the end of
     56  * the file is considered an illegal operation - just use ftruncate(2) or
     57  * fallocate(2) with mode 0 for such type of operations.
     58  */
     59 #define FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE		0x20
     60 
     61 #endif /* _UAPI_FALLOC_H_ */
     62