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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bpm@sgi.com, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	jack@suse.cz, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, lczerner@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/10] fs: Add new flag(FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) for fallocate
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:36:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140223213606.GE4317@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140222140625.GD26637@thunk.org>

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 09:06:25AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:37:43AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * There is no need to overlap collapse range with EOF, in which case
> > +	 * it is effectively a truncate operation
> > +	 */
> > +	if ((mode & FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) &&
> > +	    (offset + len >= i_size_read(inode)))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> 
> I wonder if we should just translate a collapse range that is
> equivalent to a truncate operation to, in fact, be a truncate
> operation?

Trying to collapse a range that extends beyond EOF, IMO, is likely
to only happen if the DVR/NLE application is buggy. Hence I think
that telling the application it is doing something that is likely to
be wrong is better than silently truncating the file....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bpm@sgi.com, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	jack@suse.cz, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, lczerner@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/10] fs: Add new flag(FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) for fallocate
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:36:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140223213606.GE4317@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140222140625.GD26637@thunk.org>

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 09:06:25AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:37:43AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * There is no need to overlap collapse range with EOF, in which case
> > +	 * it is effectively a truncate operation
> > +	 */
> > +	if ((mode & FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) &&
> > +	    (offset + len >= i_size_read(inode)))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> 
> I wonder if we should just translate a collapse range that is
> equivalent to a truncate operation to, in fact, be a truncate
> operation?

Trying to collapse a range that extends beyond EOF, IMO, is likely
to only happen if the DVR/NLE application is buggy. Hence I think
that telling the application it is doing something that is likely to
be wrong is better than silently truncating the file....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-23 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18 16:37 [PATCH v5 1/10] fs: Add new flag(FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) for fallocate Namjae Jeon
2014-02-18 16:37 ` Namjae Jeon
2014-02-22 14:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-22 14:06   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-23 21:36   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-02-23 21:36     ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-25 23:41     ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-25 23:41       ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-25 23:41       ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26  1:57       ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26  1:57         ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26  1:57         ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26  5:25         ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26  5:25           ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26  5:25           ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26 10:04           ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26 10:04             ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26 10:04             ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-26 23:48             ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26 23:48               ` Hugh Dickins
2014-02-26 23:48               ` Hugh Dickins

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