On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:23:42 -0700 Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/22/2015 03:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:09:43 -0700 Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> ...
> >> +
> >> +  if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE))
> >> +          return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > EOPNOTSUPP is a networking thing.  It's inappropriate here.
> >
> > The problem is that if this error is ever returned to userspace, the
> > user will be sitting looking at "Operation not supported on transport
> > endpoint" and wondering what went wrong in the networking stack.
> 
> Trying to follow FALLOCATE(2) man page:
> 
> "EOPNOTSUPP
>       The filesystem containing the file referred to by  fd  does  not
>       support  this  operation;  or  the  mode is not supported by the
>       filesystem containing the file referred to by fd."
> 

Sigh.
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