Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:59:26AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:31:02PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: I have the updated patches ready which take care of Andrew's comments. Will run some tests and post them soon. But, before submitting these patches, I think it

[PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()

2007-05-10 Thread David Howells
Following bug was uncovered by compiling with '-W' flag: CC [M] fs/afs/write.o fs/afs/write.c: In function ‘afs_write_back_from_locked_page’: fs/afs/write.c:398: warning: comparison of unsigned expression = 0 is always true Loop variable 'n' is unsigned, so wraps around happily as far as I

[PATCH 2/2] AFS: Fix a couple of problems with unlinking AFS files

2007-05-10 Thread David Howells
Fix a couple of problems with unlinking AFS files. (1) The parent directory wasn't being updated properly between unlink() and the following lookup(). It seems that, for some reason, invalidate_remote_inode() wasn't discarding the directory contents correctly, so this patch calls

Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: accomodate 32 bit capabilities

2007-05-10 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 08, 2007 16:49 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Andreas Dilger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One of the important use cases I can see today is the ability to split the heavily-overloaded e.g. CAP_SYS_ADMIN into much more fine grained attributes. Sounds plausible, though it suffers