From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:01:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87typ4h5dc.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006151611.36443.knikanth@novell.com> (Nikanth Karthikesan's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:35 +0530")
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com> writes:
>> I have no objections to such those operations (likewise make hole,
>> truncate any range, etc. etc.).
>
> As far as FAT is concerned, Sparse files would break the on-disk format?
Yes. In the case of making hole on FAT, I guess it will return the
error, or emulate it by zero fill.
Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-15 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 15:05 [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-06-13 11:42 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-06-15 10:41 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-06-15 12:01 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2010-06-15 15:16 ` David Pottage
2010-06-17 15:04 ` Hubert Kario
2010-06-22 1:26 ` Stewart Smith
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