linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK

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Message-ID: <4DB0A1C3.6050700@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:29:39 -0700
From:	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
CC:	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags

On 04/21/2011 01:45 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
>> +	case SEEK_DATA:
>> +	case SEEK_HOLE:
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> 	}
>
> Maybe we should be returning EOPNOTSUPP?
>
> -- Ted

For SEEK_HOLE yes. But we could let the default SEEK_DATA be a null-op.
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