On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:34:26PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > Agreed. How about doing this check in the filesystem specific fallocate > inode routines instead ? For example, in ext4 we could do : That looks okay - in fact XFS should already have this check because it re-uses the setattr implementation to set the size. Can you submit an xfstests testcase to verify this behaviour on all filesystems? -- 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
