Re: [PATCH] fat: Editions to support fat_fallocate()

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On 12/23/07, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
> "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> writes:
> >
> > However, digging further, when FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE is set, I don't
> > think fat_cont_expand() has the behaviour that we want to implement.
> > When that flag is set, I think we simply want to add clusters
> > associated with the file to the FAT.  We don't want to clear them or
> > map them into the page cache yet (that should be done when the
> > filesize is increased for real).
> >
> > I believe a call to fat_allocate_clusters() is all that is needed in
> > this case.  Hirofumi, please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Right. And we need to care the limitation on FAT specification (compatibility).

I not sure I fully understand what you mean.  Can you please
elaborate?  Are you referring to whether on not it will break other
FAT implementations if a file has more clusters allocated than it
needs?  If so, how do we decide whether or not it is acceptable?

Thanks,
g.

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