On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:25:59PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:47:02AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > For FA_ALLOCATE, it's supposed to change the file size if we > > allocate past EOF, right? > > I would argue no. Use truncate for that. The patch I posted for ext4 *does* change the filesize after preallocation, if required (i.e. when preallocation is after EOF). I may have to change that, if we decide on not doing this. -- Regards, Amit Arora - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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