Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] fat: add fat_fallocate operation

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:42:16PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> User have to call fallocate again if opening file after close().
> And fallocate() will skip allocation if fallocated blocks is avaiable.
> Instead, It gurrantee to be available fallocated blocks between open
> and close(). And I updated such limitation of fat fallocate in
> Documentation.

Documentation doesn't help, this breaks application exposed semantics.

If you think there is a use case for non-persistant preallocations
please propose a new fallocate flag for it, or given the lack of use
case probably just add a fat specific ioctl instead.
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