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30*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Dd November 8, 2021
31ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Dt VOP_ALLOCATE 9
32ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Os
33ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh NAME
34ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Nm VOP_ALLOCATE
35ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Nd allocate storage for a file
36ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh SYNOPSIS
37ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.In sys/param.h
38ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.In sys/vnode.h
39ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Ft int
40*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fo VOP_ALLOCATE
41*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fa "struct vnode *vp"
42*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fa "off_t *offset"
43*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fa "off_t *len"
44*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fa "int ioflag"
45*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fa "struct ucred *cred"
46*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.Fc
47ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh DESCRIPTION
48ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThis call allocates storage for a range of offsets in a file.
49ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinIt is used to implement the
50ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Xr posix_fallocate
51ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinsystem call.
52ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Pp
53ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinIts arguments are:
54ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Bl -tag -width offset
55ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa vp
56ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe vnode of the file.
57ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa offset
58ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe start of the range to allocate storage for in the file.
59ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa len
60ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe length of the range to allocate storage for in the file.
61*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.It Fa ioflag
62*b2bf1a57SRick MacklemDirectives and hints to be given to the file system.
63*b2bf1a57SRick Macklem.It Fa cred
64*b2bf1a57SRick MacklemThe credentials of the caller.
65ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.El
66ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Pp
67ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe
68ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fa offset
69ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinand
70ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fa len
71ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinarguments are updated to reflect the portion of the range that
72ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinstill needs to be allocated on return.
73ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinA partial allocation is considered a successful operation.
74ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe file's contents are not changed.
75ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh LOCKS
76ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe file should be exclusively locked on entry and will still be locked on exit.
77ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh RETURN VALUES
78ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinZero is returned if the call is successful, otherwise an appropriate
79ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinerror code is returned.
80ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh ERRORS
81ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Bl -tag -width Er
82ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Bq Er EFBIG
83ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinAn attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the process's file size
84ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinlimit or the maximum file size.
85ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Bq Er ENOSPC
86ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe file system is full.
87ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Bq Er EPERM
88ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinAn append-only flag is set on the file, but the caller is attempting to
89ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinwrite before the current end of file.
90ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.El
91ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh SEE ALSO
92ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Xr vnode 9 ,
93ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Xr VOP_READ 9 ,
94ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Xr VOP_WRITE 9
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