Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] remove duplicated check from ext4, xfs, btrfs, and ocfs2
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2012-11-20 10:14:53
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linux-btrfs, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, ocfs2-devel
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:29:41PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
Hi all, This patch series tries to remove a sanity check in fallocate from specific filesystems because vfs has already checked it. I am not very familiar with why we need to do this duplicated check. Please let me know if I miss something.
Each filesystem driver checks to see if a flag that it doesn't support gets passed down. This was done with the intention that we can add new flags to the VFS without having to update every filesystem. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs