On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:18:46AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. You are right. I have written a test and it passes on XFS, but fails on ext4. > Can you submit an xfstests testcase to verify this behaviour on all > filesystems? Sure. Its ready and is under test. Will post shortly.. -- Regards, Amit Arora -- 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
