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Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 4/4] fs: tmpfs, ext2 use new truncate
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:22:50PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK fair enough. But I don't know if all those checks are
> realy appropriate. For example an IS_APPEND inode should
> be able to have its blocks trimmed off if a write fails.

It should.  But I think that's a separate issue of what we're trying to
fix right now.  So let's just do the method reshuffle now and then sort
out the checks later.