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Subject: Re: fat problem in 2.4.2
To: jstrand1@rochester.rr.com (James D Strandboge)
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:20:17 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> The bug with truncate in the fat filesystem that was present in 2.4.0,
> and fixed with the 2.4.0-ac12 (or earlier) patch is still in the main

It isnt a bug. The fix in 2.4-ac I've dropped. A program that assumes
ftruncating a file large will work is broken.

Alan

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