ACK/cmt: [Vivid][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: disable ext4_punch_hole for indirect filesystems

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Wed Feb 4 19:18:42 UTC 2015



On 02/04/2015 02:33 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> There was, to my knowledge, extensive testing with this. And also user-space
> should be prepared to handle that return code since it is documented in
> fallocate(2) that not all filesystems will support it.
> 
> Chris, if I remember correctly this might be currently misbehaving in previous
> releases, too. For which we probably should avoid corruption as well as long as
> it takes to get a proper upstream fix.
> 
> -Stefan
> 

I agree, once this is applied to Vivid, I'll work on getting this SRUed.
Thanks!
--chris




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