Messages in this thread | | | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fat: editions to support fat_fallocate() | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:19:14 +0900 |
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Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> writes:
>> Does this break the linux fat driver doesn't know about this >> fallocate()? If so, it sounds like to be easy to break existent >> drivers. > Yes, it will break linux drivers without fallocate support. When we > try to write to fallocated file using old drivers, it will cause write > error and make FS read-only. > When fallocate was implemented in other filesystem, maybe,, was there > similar issue and concern ?
I guess it is not similar. Because other FS can change the spec (e.g. it can be possible to use feature compat flag for it). -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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