Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:25:29 +0100 (MET) | From | Peter Daum <> | Subject | Re: fat problem in 2.4.2 |
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The bug with truncate in the fat filesystem that was present in 2.4.0, > > and fixed with the 2.4.0-ac12 (or earlier) patch is still in the main > > It isnt a bug. The fix in 2.4-ac I've dropped. A program that assumes > ftruncating a file large will work is broken.
In that case, why was it changed for FAT only? Ext2 will still happily enlarge a file by truncating it.
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?
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?
Regards,
Peter Daum
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