[RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 16:28:53 UTC 2015


Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:

> Any plans to add limitations of filesystem to the call like maximum file
> size?  I know its mostly relevant for just for FAT32, but on any account
> rather than trying to write 4 GiB and then file, it would be good to at some
> time get a dialog at the beginning of the copy.

Adding filesystem limits can be done.  I got a shopping list of things people
wanted a while back and I've worked off of that list.  I can add other things
- that's on of the reasons I left room for expansion.

David



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