Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bug in ext4/btrfs fallocate? | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:46:39 -0700 |
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On 2010-12-28, at 09:06, Marco Stornelli wrote: > it seems that ext4/btrfs code for fallocate doesn't check for > immutable/append inode flag.
fallocate() probably shouldn't be allowed for immutable files, but it makes a lot of sense to call fallocate() on append-only files to avoid fragmentation, though it should only be called with the KEEP_SIZE flag.
Cheers, Andreas
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