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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/5] fat: additions to support fat_fallocate
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Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
>
> This patch set provides support for doing fallocate operation
> on FAT filesystem.
> After series of review for the the feature
> The complete functionality is broken down into smaller subsets.
>
> v2:
> - remove a stary unlock(from Dan Carpenter)
> - check ->mmu_private and ->i_disksize to truncate uninitialized data.
>
> Namjae Jeon (5):
> fat: add i_disksize to represent uninitialized size
> fat: add fat_fallocate operation
> fat: zero out seek range on _fat_get_block
> fat: fallback to buffered write in case of fallocatded region on direct IO
> fat: permit to return phy block number by fibmap in fallocated region

Let's add document about FAT's fallocate() behavior to
Documents/filesystem/vfat.txt.

I.e. it will be truncated evict_inode(). So, user has to assume
fallocate() is only valid until last close(), and user has to re-call
fallocate() after re-open to make sure fallocate() region.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


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