Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:13:08 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, arnd@arndb.de,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call
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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.