From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] truncate: introduce new sequence Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:35:47 +1100 Message-ID: <20100317063547.GF2869@laptop> References: <20100302110430.GG8653@laptop> <87aau8icvm.fsf@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Jan Kara To: Dmitry Monakhov Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58256 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753287Ab0CQGfv (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:35:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87aau8icvm.fsf@openvz.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:01:49PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > What is the patch's destiny, was it accepted to some dev-tree? > If no, please clarify when it will be accepted. > Basically want to move newsize_ok check out from vmtruncate > to inode_change_ok to fix nasty bugs in setattr() and it is depends > on Nick's patch. I guess Al hasn't had a chance to look at them yet. I don't think they should change much, though. If you want to base patches on top of it, that should be fine. I could submit to -mm in the meantime if you like? Let me know also if you want the new-truncate filesystem conversions (many of them are done). Thanks, Nick