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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:56:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE2B7C7.4080406@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116163320.GB2524@localhost.localdomain>

On 16/11/10 16:33, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:20:43PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>> So for older versions of ext4 or other filesystems, how do we know
>> that fallocate(...,FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) is not supported.
>> I.E. how do we detect at runtime that the call succeeded
>> and didn't just do a normal fallocate()?
>>
> 
> Older kernels won't accept FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, so you'll get an error.
> Thanks,

Oops right.
Older kernels filter FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE at a higher level in fs/open.c
Whereas newer kernels will do it per file system.

thanks,
Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15 17:05 Hole Punching V2 Josef Bacik
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/6] fs: add hole punching to fallocate Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 11:16   ` Jan Kara
2010-11-16 11:43     ` Jan Kara
2010-11-16 12:52       ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 13:14         ` Jan Kara
2010-11-17  0:22           ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-17  2:11             ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-17  2:28               ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-17  2:34                 ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-17  9:30                   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-17  9:19               ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-16 12:53     ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/6] XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly Josef Bacik
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 3/6] Ocfs2: " Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 11:50   ` Jan Kara
2010-11-17 23:27   ` Joel Becker
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 11:52   ` Jan Kara
2010-11-16 12:25   ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 12:50     ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 13:07       ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 16:05         ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 20:47           ` Greg Freemyer
2010-11-17  3:06         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-17  6:31           ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 16:20   ` Pádraig Brady
2010-11-16 16:33     ` Josef Bacik
2010-11-16 16:56       ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 5/6] Btrfs: " Josef Bacik
2010-11-15 17:05 ` [PATCH 6/6] Gfs2: " Josef Bacik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-18  1:46 Hole Punching V3 Josef Bacik
2010-11-18  1:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch Josef Bacik
2010-11-08 20:32 [PATCH 1/6] fs: add hole punching to fallocate Josef Bacik
2010-11-08 20:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch Josef Bacik

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