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| author | Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> | 2014-07-31 09:38:11 +1000 |
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| committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2014-08-05 17:55:16 +1000 |
| commit | f14e3229fbd61ff83e1d9c79cb503c6a1b9a88ea (patch) | |
| tree | 169549a116510b265ed80bc1d31c75c9b7715df3 | |
| parent | 76a9f6591b0f36c0810c6b943ba435b5937c4b13 (diff) | |
Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt: update the limitation for fat fallocate
Update the limitation for fat fallocate.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index ce1126aceed8..223c32171dcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -180,6 +180,16 @@ dos1xfloppy -- If set, use a fallback default BIOS Parameter Block <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false +LIMITATION +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +* The fallocated region of file is discarded at umount/evict time + when using fallocate with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE. + So, User should assume that fallocated region can be discarded at + last close if there is memory pressure resulting in eviction of + the inode from the memory. As a result, for any dependency on + the fallocated region, user should make sure to recheck fallocate + after reopening the file. + TODO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Need to get rid of the raw scanning stuff. Instead, always use |