On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 18:00 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > ------------------------------ > > > >To be honest, I am not fully understand what is the case of the fix. As > >a result, I can understand correctness of the fix. Could you describe > >the issue and the fix in more details? Could you provide more clear > >description of the use-case of such issue? Anyway, this fix requires in > >more clear and detailed description. > > Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I think I understand the description, though I have not checked > the code itself in detail (and the fat driver origin). The use > of 'truncate' to illustrate the problem is a bit unfortunate, > as the issue is not about making a file smaller, but larger, > e.g. seek'ing beyond the end of a file > to expand it. It should fail if one seeks too far > and try to create a very large file, but it currently does > not fail (or so it says), but results in an inconsistent file system. > > Hope this helps. > Description of the fix needs in correction because current description doesn't provide enough details for clear understanding of the issue and the fix. Currently, it's hard to realize the fix, from my point of view. Thanks, Vyacheslav Dubeyko. -- 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
