2013/12/1, OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>: > Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> writes: > >> From: Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> >> >> This patch set provides support for doing fallocate operation >> on FAT filesystem. >> After series of review for the the feature >> The complete functionality is broken down into smaller subsets. >> >> v2: >> - remove a stary unlock(from Dan Carpenter) >> - check ->mmu_private and ->i_disksize to truncate uninitialized data. >> >> Namjae Jeon (5): >> fat: add i_disksize to represent uninitialized size >> fat: add fat_fallocate operation >> fat: zero out seek range on _fat_get_block >> fat: fallback to buffered write in case of fallocatded region on direct >> IO >> fat: permit to return phy block number by fibmap in fallocated region > > Let's add document about FAT's fallocate() behavior to > Documents/filesystem/vfat.txt. > > I.e. it will be truncated evict_inode(). So, user has to assume > fallocate() is only valid until last close(), and user has to re-call > fallocate() after re-open to make sure fallocate() region. Right. I will update vfat document.
Thanks for review. > -- > OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]> > -- 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/
