linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V7 22/23] ext4: let fallocate handle inline data correctly.

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Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:37:59 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 22/23] ext4: let fallocate handle inline data
 correctly.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:55:37AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
> 
> If we are punching hole in a file, we will return ENOTSUPP.

We don't need to fix this right away (I'll apply the patch w/o dealing
with this), but probably the right thing to do is to deal with
punching a hole in an inline data file by setting the region of the
file to zero --- after all, that's how we handle punching
non-page-aligned regions for extent based files, so we might as well
support inline data files the same way, especially since that should
be a relatively easy change.

						- Ted
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