Re: [PATCH 4/6] Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 06:53:00 EST


On Mon 15-11-10 12:05:21, 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,
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza
> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 0554c48..35bca73 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -3622,6 +3622,10 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> struct ext4_map_blocks map;
> unsigned int credits, blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
>
> + /* We only support the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE mode */
> + if (mode && (mode != FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE))
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> /*
> * currently supporting (pre)allocate mode for extent-based
> * files _only_
> --
> 1.6.6.1
>
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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