On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 02:04:46PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > But as Al Viro pointed out, O_APPEND really can't have any real > meaning for a block device. It would be neat if we could magically > make a 10TB HDD to become as 12TB HDD by writing 2TB using > O_APPEND, but reality doesn't work that way. :-) > > It probably makes sense just to remove the FIXME from the current > kernel sources so that future people don't get confused, asking the > same questions you have. *nod*
