On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:47:02AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > For FA_ALLOCATE, it's supposed to change the file size if we > allocate past EOF, right? I would argue no. Use truncate for that. > For FA_DEALLOCATE, does it change the filesize at all? Same as above. > Or does > it just punch a hole in the file? Yes. > FWIW, we definitely need a FA_PREALLOCATE mode (FA_ALLOCATE but does > not change file size) so we can preallocate beyond EOF for apps > which use O_APPEND (i.e. changing file size would cause problems for > them). FA_ALLOCATE should be able to allocate past-EOF I would argue. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
