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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Rare xfsqa test failure
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:51:25 -0500
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> If so, that calls ltp's fsstress, which does not call fallocate nor
>> posix_fallocate.  It only does preallocation on xfs via the old
>> xfs-specific ioctl (though I suppose we should add it...)
> 
> Which in modern kernels is implemented in common code and gets routed to
> ->falllocate.

Oh right....

I was thinking it didn't try any xfs ioctls on non-xfs filesystems but I
guess that's not the case.

-Eric