On 12/13 2013 21:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:36:22PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: >>>> (I guess looking at ext4, it uses ENOSPC for some similar constraints, >>>> so maybe three is precedent for this) >>> Btrfs also uses ENOSPC, but JFS would return something like "Argument list too long" >>> in this case. > > I think ENOSPC is a really bad idea in this case, but I also think we > should make sure Linux filesystems behave unfiformly. > > Jeff, can you write a summary of the errors returned by all common > filesystems and post it to -fsdevel for comment? We should have a > common error for this, and I'd be a happier man if it weren't ENOSPC, > but that's secondary. Yep, let me gather up those info... Thanks, -Jeff _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs