On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:23:35AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > So every sb has s_maxbytes set to something, is this not acceptable > for character devices? I guess some can let you seek well past this > point so we should just do some if (S_ISCHR()) return or whatever? Probably for all special files just to be sure, although pipes/sockets/fifos aren't searchable, and block devices tend to get redirected to their own superblock. -- 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