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If the DIO write on FAT is expanding the size, it will be fail by -EINVAL,
because FAT can't handle it now.

This patch fallback it to the normal buffered-write and would return
success.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/fat/inode.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/fat/inode.c~fat_direct-io-fallback fs/fat/inode.c
--- linux-2.6/fs/fat/inode.c~fat_direct-io-fallback     2007-02-10 
22:08:33.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/fs/fat/inode.c   2007-02-10 22:08:33.000000000 +0900
@@ -173,10 +173,12 @@ static ssize_t fat_direct_IO(int rw, str
                 *
                 * But we must fill the remaining area or hole by nul for
                 * updating ->mmu_private.
+                *
+                * Return 0, and fallback to normal buffered write.
                 */
                loff_t size = offset + iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
                if (MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private < size)
-                       return -EINVAL;
+                       return 0;
        }
 
        /*
_
-
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