Il 29/12/2010 07:46, Andreas Dilger ha scritto: > On 2010-12-28, at 09:06, Marco Stornelli wrote: >> it seems that ext4/btrfs code for fallocate doesn't check for >> immutable/append inode flag. > > fallocate() probably shouldn't be allowed for immutable files, but it makes a lot of sense to call fallocate() on append-only files to avoid fragmentation, though it should only be called with the KEEP_SIZE flag. > > Cheers, Andreas > It seems that only ocfs2 does that check, however I think not checking for immutable flag is an error, for the append case maybe you're right, doing this operation on append-only files has got sense. Marco -- 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
