Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fat problem in 2.4.2 | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:19:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> In that case, why was it changed for FAT only? Ext2 will still > happily enlarge a file by truncating it.
ftruncate() and truncate() may extend a file but they are not required to do so.
> If the behavior has to be changed, wouldn't it be better to first > give people a chance to get programs, that rely on the old > behavior fixed, before enforcing the change?
A program relying on the old behaviour was violating standards. Also its been this way for almost two years.
> Staroffice (the binary-only version; the new "open source" > version is not yet ready for real-world use) for example > currently doesn't write to FAT filesystems anymore - which is > pretty annoying for people who need it. > > Is there somewhere a patch for the current kernel?
You might be able to fish it out of old -ac kernel trees and debug it further. Alternatively you could implement it in glibc of course, which is a nicer solution
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