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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index ac2a261c5f7..6ef8cf3bc9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -457,6 +457,9 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.30: + - Fix writev() (it kept writing the first segment over and over again + instead of moving onto subsequent segments). 2.1.29: - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: 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. |