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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:19:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100611071945.GA20496@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C11E2BD.2020207@oracle.com>

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On 06/11/2010 02:56 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >This looks correct, but still has the second if ATTR_SIZE block that
> >I commented on last time.  I'd really prefer if the filesystems could
> >move the truncate handling into a single conditional to simplify
> >auditing for it and possibly splitting it out into a separate method
> >later.
> oh, that would be much work for ocfs2 to do from my perspective. So I 
> would really want to leave it as-is and I have add it to my to-do list.

Oh right, you start a new transaction there.  Sorry, ignore my request
and keep it as it is for now.  I don't think doing truncatate in separate
transactions actually is correct, though but that's no change with this
patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-11  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11  3:27 [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence Tao Ma
2010-06-11  4:50 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11  6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11  7:16   ` Tao Ma
2010-06-11  7:19     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-11  7:50       ` Joel Becker
2010-06-11  7:55         ` Joel Becker

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