From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: Convert filesystem to the new truncate calling convention Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:37:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20090922173704.GB31447@duck.suse.cz> References: <1253200907-31392-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1253200907-31392-6-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20090922143604.GA2183@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090922171604.GA31447@duck.suse.cz> <20090922172347.GG14381@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de, tytso@mit.edu To: Al Viro Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090922172347.GG14381@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue 22-09-09 18:23:47, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 07:16:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > No. We already have one half-finished series here; mixing it with another > > > one is not going to happen. Such flags are tolerable only as bisectability > > > helpers. They *must* disappear by the end of series. Before it can be > > > submitted for merge. > > > > > > In effect, you are mixing truncate switchover with your writepage one. > > > Please, split and reorder. > > > Well, this wasn't meant as a final version of those patches. It was > > meant as a request for comment whether it makes sence to fix the problem > > how I propose to fix it. If we agree on that, I'll go and convert the rest > > of filesystems so that we can remove .new_writepage hack. By that time I > > hope that new truncate sequence patches will be merged so that dependency > > should go away as well... > > Could you carve just the ext4 part of truncate series out of that and > post it separately? Definitely. Actually, I've sent that patch to Nick in private but you're right I should have posted it to the list as well. Will do it in a moment. Thanks for a reminder. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org