From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?=
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:20:43 +0000
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Cc: david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, cmm@us.ibm.com,
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To: Josef Bacik
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On 15/11/10 17:05, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Ext4 doesn't have the ability to punch holes yet, so make sure we ret=
urn
> EOPNOTSUPP if we try to use hole punching through fallocate. This su=
pport can
> be added later. Thanks,
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>=20
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 0554c48..35bca73 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -3622,6 +3622,10 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int m=
ode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> struct ext4_map_blocks map;
> unsigned int credits, blkbits =3D inode->i_blkbits;
> =20
> + /* We only support the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE mode */
> + if (mode && (mode !=3D FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE))
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> /*
> * currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based
> * files _only_
So for older versions of ext4 or other filesystems, how do we know
that fallocate(...,FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) is not supported.
I.E. how do we detect at runtime that the call succeeded
and didn't just do a normal fallocate()?
cheers,
P=E1draig.