From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:13:08 -0800 Message-ID: <20151124081308.GB8840@infradead.org> References: <20151120145422.18930.72662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1502878.QisWlqATFu@merkaba> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Howells , arnd@arndb.de, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Steigerwald Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1502878.QisWlqATFu@merkaba> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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.