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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 10:27:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 10:27:28 -0800 |
| commit | b2034d474b7e1e8578bd5c2977024b51693269d9 (patch) | |
| tree | e43969bf7c2ba89884c2580f56978826f1014520 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 27d189c02ba25851973c8582e419c0bded9f7e5b (diff) | |
| parent | 924241575a85249b9d410e38f5b2fcad9035e45c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (41 commits)
fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
fs: add hole punching to fallocate
vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
switch afs
move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
switch ncpfs
switch 9p
pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
switch hostfs
switch affs
switch configfs
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 07a32b42cf9..266d2059b9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -385,3 +385,12 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_RCU). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + +-- +[mandatory] + In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in. If your +filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a +file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode. +Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, +so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of +a file off. |