linux-ext4 - Re: Question on fallocate/ftruncate sequence

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Message-ID: <4A663B40.6060009@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:03:44 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question on fallocate/ftruncate sequence

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Yep, I think you've found a bug, I will look into this soon unless
> someone beats me to it :)

FWIW this'd be a great test to add to the xfstests test suite (it would
test ext4 for this too)  I could do it but external contributions are
welcomed and encouraged, hint hint ;)

The xfs_io "falloc -k" command will do fallocate with KEEP_SIZE.

-Eric
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