Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Sep 2022 01:45:44 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 4/8] fs: Introduce FALLOC_FL_PROVISION |
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:54:32PM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote: > [ mmc0blkp1 | ext4(1) | sparse file | loop | dm-thinp | dm-thin | ext4(2) ] > > would be predicated on the guarantees of fallocate() per allocation > layer; if ext4(1) was replaced by a filesystem that did not support > fallocate(), then there would be no guarantee that a write to a file > on ext4(2) succeeds.
a write or any unlimited number of writes?
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