s3:vfs_gpfs: Implement fallocate callback for GPFS

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@@ -16,11 +16,19 @@ style should never outweigh coding itself and so the guidelines
 described here are hopefully easy enough to follow as they are very
 common and supported by tools and editors.
 
-The basic style, also mentioned in prog_guide4.txt, is the Linux kernel
+The basic style for C code, also mentioned in prog_guide4.txt, is the Linux kernel
 coding style (See Documentation/CodingStyle in the kernel source tree). This
 closely matches what most Samba developers use already anyways, with a few
 exceptions as mentioned below.
 
+The coding style for Python code is documented in PEP8,
+http://www.python.org/pep/pep8 (with spaces). 
+If you have ever worked on another free software Python project, you are
+probably already familiar with it.
+
+We try to stay compatible with Python 2.4, so please don't rely on any
+features that were introduced later, such as the "with" statement.
+
 But to save you the trouble of reading the Linux kernel style guide, here
 are the highlights.