Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753160AbbKXINN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 03:13:13 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45941 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752837AbbKXINL (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 03:13:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:13:08 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: David Howells , arnd@arndb.de, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call Message-ID: <20151124081308.GB8840@infradead.org> References: <20151120145422.18930.72662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1502878.QisWlqATFu@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1502878.QisWlqATFu@merkaba> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 13 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 05:19:31PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I know its mostly relevant for just for FAT32, but on any account rather than > trying to write 4 GiB and then file, it would be good to at some time get a > dialog at the beginning of the copy. pathconf/fpathconf is supposed to handle that. It's not super pretty but part of Posix. Linus hates it, but it might be time to give it another try. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/