From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:16:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:16:17 -0500 Received: from slc457.modem.xmission.com ([166.70.2.203]:62473 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:16:06 -0500 To: Alan Cox Cc: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood), viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro), stefan@hello-penguin.com (Stefan Traby), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state) In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 07 Jan 2001 07:56:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:57:17 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > > Putting the LFS checks, & max filesize checks into the VFS sounds > > right for 2.4.x because it fixes lots of filesystems, with just a > > couple of lines of code. > > Rather more than that, and it only fixes those using generic_file_* True. But it is noticeable fewer lines of code than doing it all once for each fs. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/