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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't re-try to remove the entry from es tree when we encounter a ENOMEM in ext4_ext_truncate
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 01:45:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130801084501.GA9419@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130729154239.GD11816@thunk.org>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:42:39AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The problem with truncate is that the VFS assumes truncate() will
> always succeed (the method function is returns a void, so there isn't
> even a way to propagate an error code back p to the VFS), so we really
> do need to do a retry in ext4's truncate code.

It hasn't for a long time.  The ill suite truncate method is gone for
a long time, and setattr can return errors just fine.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-25 11:56 [PATCH] ext4: don't re-try to remove the entry from es tree when we encounter a ENOMEM in ext4_ext_truncate Zheng Liu
2013-07-29 15:07 ` Zheng Liu
2013-07-29 15:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-29 23:50   ` Zheng Liu
2013-08-01  8:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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