Re: [CFT][PATCH] Re: fat problem in 2.4.2

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Alexander Viro  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Alan, fix is really quite simple. Especially if you have vmtruncate()
>returning int (ac1 used to do it, I didn't check later ones). Actually
>just a generic_cont_expand() done on expanding path in vmtruncate()
>will be enough - it should be OK for all cases, including normal
>filesystems. <grabbing -ac7>
>
>OK, any brave soul to test that? All I can promise that it builds.

This looks like it would create a dummy block even for non-broken
filesystems (ie truncating a file to be larger on ext2 would create a
block, no?). While that would work, it would also waste disk-space.

		Linus