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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH v2] Check for immutable flag in fallocate path
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:24:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314102426.GA29888@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303213903.GL15097@dastard>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:39:03AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> WTF?  Why does append mode have any effect on whether we can punch
> holes in a file or not? There's no justification for adding this in
> the commit message. Why is it even in a patch that is for checking
> immutable inodes? What is the point of adding it, when all that will
> happen is people will switch to XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP which has never had
> this limitation?

xfs_ioc_space unconditionally rejects inodes with S_APPEND set for
all preallocation / hole punching ioctls.  This might be overzealous for
preallocations not changing the size, or just extending i_size, but it's
IMHO entirely correct for hole punching.  



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 10:24 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <4D6221B8.9040303@gmail.com>
2011-02-21 12:46 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] Check for immutable flag in fallocate path Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] ` <4D6F5473.2070709@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <20110303213903.GL15097@dastard>
2011-03-14 10:24     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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