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SubjectRe: [2.6.26 patch] fuse: add flag to turn on big writes

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>
> Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests. In
> theory all fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k
> writes, as there's nothing in the API to prevent it. Unfortunately
> there's a known case in NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem
> corruption. There could also be other filesystems, where the lack of
> testing with big write requests would result in bugs.
>
> To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by
> default, but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> CC: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>

Big thanks Miklos!

Acked-by: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>

Szaka



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