Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262817AbTKVXHF (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:07:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262838AbTKVXHF (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:07:05 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:5797 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262817AbTKVXHD (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:07:03 -0500 To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Pavel Machek , Timothy Miller , Andreas Dilger , Justin Cormack , Jesse Pollard , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? References: <1068512710.722.161.camel@cube> <03111209360001.11900@tabby> <20031120172143.GA7390@deneb.enyo.de> <03112013081700.27566@tabby> <1069357453.26642.93.camel@lotte.street-vision.com> <3FBD27A0.50803@techsource.com> <20031120140739.I20568@schatzie.adilger.int> <3FBD328C.1070607@techsource.com> <20031122145031.GA189@elf.ucw.cz> <20031122195052.GA17077@mail.shareable.org> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: How many retired bricklayers from FLORIDA are out purchasing PENCIL SHARPENERS right NOW?? Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:07:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031122195052.GA17077@mail.shareable.org> (Jamie Lokier's message of "Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:50:52 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 25 Jamie Lokier writes: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> > It is, though. If you run out of space copying a file, you know it when >> > you're copying. Applications don't usually expect to get out-of-space >> > errors while overwriting something in the middle of a file. >> >> Same can happen on compressed filesystem... > > Or a filesystem with snapshots, e.g. using LVM. Or writing to a sparse file. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - 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/