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Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

from [Christoph Hellwig] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:05:16 +0100
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, suparna@xxxxxxxxxx, cmm@xxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:55:43AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Given the current behaviour for posix_fallocate() in glibc, I think
> that retaining the same error semantic and punting the cleanup to
> userspace (where the app will fail with ENOSPC anyway) is the only
> sane thing we can do here. Trying to undo this in the kernel leads
> to lots of extra rarely used code in error handling paths...

Agreed, looks like we should stay with the user has to clean up behaviour.
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