2012/10/23, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Does this break the linux fat driver doesn't know about this >>> fallocate()? If so, it sounds like to be easy to break existent >>> drivers. >> Yes, it will break linux drivers without fallocate support. When we >> try to write to fallocated file using old drivers, it will cause write >> error and make FS read-only. >> When fallocate was implemented in other filesystem, maybe,, was there >> similar issue and concern ? > > I guess it is not similar. Because other FS can change the spec (e.g. it > can be possible to use feature compat flag for it). Hi. OGAWA. Okay, I agree. Thanks for your interest. > -- > OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- 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
