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From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: .truncate extending a file
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:22:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0DE730.8060001@inet.com> (raw)

All,

I'm trying to understand what the .truncate method is supposed to do 
when the file size is extended.  (Using 2.5.68-rmk1)

dd if=/dev/zero count=1 seek=3 of=tempfile
In my filesystem, if I imediately read it back, I get the garbage from 
the disk for the first 3 blocks, but if I umount/mount the filesystem, 
the data is the 4 blocks of zeros expected.  So it looks like there is a 
mapping of some sort that I'm missing, but I'm at a loss.

Any pointers to docs, examples, etc?  Is there something I can read to 
understand what is going on with buffer heads in a filesystem context? 
Something I should grep or Google for?

TIA,

Eli
--------------------. "If it ain't broke now,
Eli Carter           \                  it will be soon." -- crypto-gram
eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------


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