> Alan, it doesn't work that way. Maximal size depends on the type of object,
> for one thing. Moreover, it's not always a multiple of page size, so you
Its a multiple of page size for all fs's we have but I did it in terms of
bytes anyway
> still need foo_get_block() to be aware of the problem (it should return
> -EFBIG). Besides, we need to take care of the situations when some of
> get_block() calls fail in prepare_write() - that can happen due to other
> problems. I've fixed all that stuff for ext2 (check the patches posted on
> l-k after 12-pre6). We need to propagate it into other filesystems, but
I put it into generic_file_write. That covers most fs's it seems. The jffs
guys are going to switch to generic_file_write soon and the other fs's
that dont are wacko ones I dont care about ;)
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