On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:45:35AM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > I'd like to point out that do_fallocate() in vfs uses ENODEV in the > case it is not regular file nor directory. > > Also I thought of the EOPNOTSUP to be the right way to go. For > example we do not support it on non-extent based files in ext4 so we > return EOPNOTSUP. > > The same is for the case that we do not support the particular > fallocate mode. > > So I am not really sure about what's the right error to use. Yes, there is some inconsistency here. I'll change this particular case (a non-REGULAR file to use EINVAL) to be consistent with xfs, but I suspect programs are going to have to be flexible. As far as non-extent based files, at least in theory at some point we could support COLLAPSE_RANGE on regular files, so I'll leave it as EOPNOTSUPP for now, but the choice is admittedly somewhat arbitrary. Cheers, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
