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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hans Montero <hjm2133@columbia.edu>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>,
	Xijiao Li <xl2950@columbia.edu>,
	OS-TA <cucs4118-tas@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Question about `generic_write_checks()` FIXME comment
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:06:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yc4RWoKfLFjwyG01@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yc4Czk5A+p5p2Y4W@mit.edu>

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 02:04:46PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>  But as Al Viro pointed out, O_APPEND really can't have any real
>  meaning for a block device.  It would be neat if we could magically
>  make a 10TB HDD to become as 12TB HDD by writing 2TB using
>  O_APPEND, but reality doesn't work that way.  :-)
> 
> It probably makes sense just to remove the FIXME from the current
> kernel sources so that future people don't get confused, asking the
> same questions you have.

*nod*

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-30 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-30  8:07 Question about `generic_write_checks()` FIXME comment Hans Montero
2021-12-30 13:59 ` Al Viro
2021-12-30 19:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-30 20:06   ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-12-31  7:23     ` Tal Zussman

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