On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:29:41PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > This patch series tries to remove a sanity check in fallocate from specific > filesystems because vfs has already checked it. > > I am not very familiar with why we need to do this duplicated check. Please let > me know if I miss something. Each filesystem driver checks to see if a flag that it doesn't support gets passed down. This was done with the intention that we can add new flags to the VFS without having to update every filesystem. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
