Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | | Subject | Re: [CFT][PATCH] Re: fat problem in 2.4.2 | | Date | 1 Mar 2001 12:05:50 -0800 |
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103011345110.11577-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: >Alan, fix is really quite simple. Especially if you have vmtruncate() >returning int (ac1 used to do it, I didn't check later ones). Actually >just a generic_cont_expand() done on expanding path in vmtruncate() >will be enough - it should be OK for all cases, including normal >filesystems. <grabbing -ac7> > >OK, any brave soul to test that? All I can promise that it builds.
This looks like it would create a dummy block even for non-broken filesystems (ie truncating a file to be larger on ext2 would create a block, no?). While that would work, it would also waste disk-space.
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