Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757767Ab0FOMBa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:01:30 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:49925 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752660Ab0FOMB2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:01:28 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Chris Mason , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join References: <201006092035.46481.knikanth@novell.com> <87aaqzp39a.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <201006151611.36443.knikanth@novell.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:01:19 +0900 In-Reply-To: <201006151611.36443.knikanth@novell.com> (Nikanth Karthikesan's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:35 +0530") Message-ID: <87typ4h5dc.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 18 Nikanth Karthikesan writes: >> I have no objections to such those operations (likewise make hole, >> truncate any range, etc. etc.). > > As far as FAT is concerned, Sparse files would break the on-disk format? Yes. In the case of making hole on FAT, I guess it will return the error, or emulate it by zero fill. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- 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/