[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Josef Bacik
josef at redhat.com
Tue Nov 16 04:50:59 PST 2010
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:25:35PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 07:05 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
>> Ext4 doesn't have the ability to punch holes yet, so make sure we return
>> EOPNOTSUPP if we try to use hole punching through fallocate. This support can
>> be added later. Thanks,
>>
>
> Instead of teaching filesystems to fail if they don't support the
> capability, why don't supporting filesystems say so, allowing the fail
> code to be in common code?
>
There is no simple way to test if a filesystem supports hole punching or not so
the check has to be done per fs. Thanks,
Josef
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