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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index ce1126a..223c321 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -180,6 +180,16 @@
<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
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* Need to get rid of the raw scanning stuff. Instead, always use