[Tux3] [PATCH] Fix maximum file size boundary checking. I added a test which attempts to

Shapor Naghibzadeh shapor at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 10:45:49 PDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Daniel Phillips <phillips at phunq.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2008 09:20, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>> Short read/write is indeed the right thing to do when user hits the
>> maximimum file size...
>
> Let me take that back.  Linux aborts without writing anything if the
> write would exceed the filesystem-defined limit (which is stored in
> the generic part of the filesystem's superblock).

Good, thats what the patch implemented. :)  It felt like the right thing to do.

Shapor

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