On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:42:43PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > The lseek() done by dump_skip() should extend the file properly. lseek never extends a file. It just moves the current file position. So if you do not have a write after the lseek it does nothing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html