Re: Bug in ext4/btrfs fallocate?

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On 2010-12-28, at 09:06, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> it seems that ext4/btrfs code for fallocate doesn't check for
> immutable/append inode flag.

fallocate() probably shouldn't be allowed for immutable files, but it makes a lot of sense to call fallocate() on append-only files to avoid fragmentation, though it should only be called with the KEEP_SIZE flag.

Cheers, Andreas





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