From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:13:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D58BF9A.94ECD8A6@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020812174634.A10106@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:06:59PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> > I think this falls under the VFS umbrella, but I may be wrong.
> >
> > Below is a fix to make block_llseek behave as specified in the Single Unix Spec. v3.
> > (http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification/). It's extremely trivial but
> > may have political baggage.
>
> Have you tested when you actually seek over the size of a block device?
> Stupid standards aside: what is the purpose of this? blockdevices won't
> grow bigger if you seek beyond them..
>
True for a disk - but will all blockdevices be
like that forever?
Extending a ram disk might be useful. Or something
looped to a regular file.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-13 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-12 16:06 Phil Auld
2002-08-12 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 16:36 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 17:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 17:57 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 18:14 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 18:06 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-12 17:14 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-13 8:13 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
[not found] <266483518@toto.iv>
2002-08-12 22:25 ` Peter Chubb
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