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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] fallocate05: Allow ENXIO error from lseek(SEEK_DATA) on empty file
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:28:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZvVTVKDr30SOcAAh@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240924160028.67124-1-mdoucha@suse.cz>

Hi!
> Some filesystems release deallocated blocks in larger chunks.
> On these filesystems, the whole test file needs to be deallocated
> to allow the final write to pass. However, lseek(SEEK_DATA) may
> return ENXIO error if the entire file range from offset to end of file
> is one large hole. Allow ENXIO error in this special case.

I do not get how is the whole file one hole, we write 10 bytes at the
end after we punch the hole. Or do I miss something?

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Cyril Hrubis
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-26 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-24 16:00 [LTP] [PATCH] fallocate05: Allow ENXIO error from lseek(SEEK_DATA) on empty file Martin Doucha
2024-09-25  9:14 ` Avinesh Kumar
2024-09-26 12:28 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2024-09-26 12:33   ` Martin Doucha

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