[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Ocfs2: Teach truncating and punching-hole codes to handle fastsymlink.

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:21:57AM +0800, tristan wrote:
> Joel Becker wrote:
> > 	The difference is that we never call the truncate code for fast
> > symlinks or inline data in the kernel.  We do in libocfs2.
> 
> Really?
> 
> Truncating for inline data is common I guess, for symlink, we may lack 
> of method to truncate it from userspace via ftruncate(2).
> 
> But it's ok to be there, right?

	It's not OK to be there.  The truncate system call will error if
it is not a regular file.  Same with OCFS2_IOC_UNRESVP.  Thus no symlink
can get there.  ocfs2_truncate_for_delete() checks i_clusters before
calling the real truncate code.  Thus it avoids fast symlinks and inline
data.

Joel

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