Re: [PATCH] ceph: only allow punch hole mode in fallocate

[Luis Henriques]

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:21 AM Yan, Zheng <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:54 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>> Applied, thanks
>
> I don't think it should go to stable kernels.  Strictly speaking it's
> a behaviour change -- it's been this way for many years and, unless you
> are close to ENOSPC, it's sort of appears to work.  I'll take off the
> stable tag unless I hear objections.

Right, it can in fact break applications that rely on the previous
(bogus) behaviour.  But it can also be claimed that it *will* break
applications anyway with an updated kernel, so backporting it to older
kernels will just allow a consistent behaviour.

Anyway, I'm OK either way.  But if you drop the stable tag make sure you
also remove the 'Fixes:' tag as I believe the stable folks will still
pick this patch if it includes a valid SHA1 in it.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis