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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [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]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-21  8:26 [PATCH] Check for immutable flag in fallocate path Marco Stornelli
2011-02-21 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-21 16:50   ` Marco Stornelli
2011-02-27 22:49     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28  7:53       ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-02  8:19       ` Marco Stornelli
2011-02-26 14:59 ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-03  8:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Marco Stornelli
2011-03-03 21:39   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-04  8:17     ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-04 12:18       ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-14 10:24     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-14 10:40       ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-05  9:37   ` [PATCH v3] Check for immutable/append " Marco Stornelli
2011-03-05 10:00     ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-05 10:10       ` [PATCH v3][RESEND] " Marco Stornelli
2011-03-09 19:42         ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-09 21:27           ` Greg KH
2011-03-10 12:03             ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-08  5:11     ` [PATCH v3] " Dave Chinner
2011-03-08  5:38       ` Andreas Dilger
2011-03-08  7:35         ` Marco Stornelli
2011-03-09  1:30         ` Dave Chinner

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