Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] fat: add fat_fallocate operation

Namjae Jeon writes: > + if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) { > + /* First compute the number of clusters to be allocated */ > + mm_bytes = offset + len - round_up(MSDOS_I(inode)->i_disksize, > + sbi->cluster_size); > + nr_cluster = (mm_byte

[PATCH v4 2/6] fat: add fat_fallocate operation

From: Namjae Jeon Implement preallocation via the fallocate syscall on VFAT partitions. This patch is based on an earlier patch of the same name which had some issues detailed below and did not get accepted. Refer https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/22/130. a) The preallocated space was not persisten