> > The bug with truncate in the fat filesystem that was present in 2.4.0,
> > and fixed with the 2.4.0-ac12 (or earlier) patch is still in the main
>
> It isnt a bug. The fix in 2.4-ac I've dropped. A program that assumes
> ftruncating a file large will work is broken.
In that case, why was it changed for FAT only? Ext2 will still
happily enlarge a file by truncating it.
If the behavior has to be changed, wouldn't it be better to first
give people a chance to get programs, that rely on the old
behavior fixed, before enforcing the change?
Staroffice (the binary-only version; the new "open source"
version is not yet ready for real-world use) for example
currently doesn't write to FAT filesystems anymore - which is
pretty annoying for people who need it.
Is there somewhere a patch for the current kernel?
Regards,
Peter Daum
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