-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/2012 06:30 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > Sorry, I'm still not understanding what you're concerned about. The > last write should seek to the end of the file system, and write a > single byte --- which would be past the last hole. The goal is to > make sure the file system is large enough that e2fsck doesn't > complain about the file system image being apparently too small. That single byte write doesn't happen when sparse == 0. > I don't understand why you're saying that it's not writing anything > beyond the last hole, and why you're saying i_size is not being > updated. It's working for me; I can run e2fsck on the generated > image, and it's not complaining that the file system is too small. It works for you because sparse != 0, thus triggering that one byte write. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPPZ2CAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75P30H/1KxTJu1NoFk2Wp/JcUwSkj/ gKq+83ykggPvtcDFcGFECRcIBgFdgPyY7pt08RTrvbSjwGLDGbK1zKOFvpYyHHak yBOC96NTmtLAs1oesCVV+C/zjDehhojeh6xuKCC5EpMoL8KdAdREAWOcsr42fuhj Qr/XKlQX8xFTrvmFQLORAOV1e7hHFQKOs1R29pCudQcppm7ZnlAWKHD7pGz9478U tJjxg2B8YUrGriZFe0oAjotxTTTUIK7vErs+tfNgsYmvSFf0XbyC6V0DSpjbK7rf 9RPHaSukNY9ax2dKwGGQp9jQpRZ+RIp5GoZCOSCEOScOviRvHyfdOCgsqEsOYsk= =9RZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
