2012/10/23, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>: > Namjae Jeon <linkinj...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> Does this break the linux fat driver doesn't know about this >>> fallocate()? If so, it sounds like to be easy to break existent >>> drivers. >> Yes, it will break linux drivers without fallocate support. When we >> try to write to fallocated file using old drivers, it will cause write >> error and make FS read-only. >> When fallocate was implemented in other filesystem, maybe,, was there >> similar issue and concern ? > > I guess it is not similar. Because other FS can change the spec (e.g. it > can be possible to use feature compat flag for it). Hi. OGAWA. Okay, I agree. Thanks for your interest.
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