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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] truncate fixes
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 19:11:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3911F1.63E55E90@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C36DEA9.AEA2A402@zip.com.au>, <3C36DEA9.AEA2A402@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:08:25AM -0800 <20020107034654.G1561@athlon.random>

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> I prefer my fix that simply recalls the ->truncate callback if -ENOSPC
> is returned by prepare_write. vmtruncate seems way overkill,

Actually, vmtruncate will trim the page off the inode as well as the
blocks from the file.  I don't think there's necessarily a problem
with having a page wholly outside i_size, but..

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-07  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-05 11:08 [patch] truncate fixes Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  2:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07  2:53   ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  3:16     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07  5:24     ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07  3:11   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-07  3:58     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07  3:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07  3:48   ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  4:12     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07  4:28       ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07  5:09         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 12:41         ` Daniel Phillips

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