Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:28:37 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: PATCH for FAT in 2.3.28 |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> The following is fixing the compilation of the fat FS as a runtime > loadable > module. I have tested the patch on my ZIP drive. Apparently there is > only > one one other filesystem out there which is using the same partial page > write interface, which appears as a leftover from older VFS versions.
Wrong.
> (At least for fat I can't see what the special function was doing > different > then the generic one. At least it didn't touch any special FAT fields in > the inode.)
Watch carefully. FAT (_and_ HPFS) doesn't allow files with holes. First of all it _does_ touch FAT-specific fields (albeit i_size) would probably be OK with some tweaking. Yes, it might make sense to move it into buffer.c. But it's _not_ an equivalent of the generic one. Heck, have you ever tried the result of your changes?
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