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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] hfs: don't dirty unchanged inode
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:49:46 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Roman Zippel wrote:

> If inode size hasn't changed, don't do anything further in truncate, which 
> also prevents a dirty inode, what might upset some readonly devices quite 
> badly.

Sorry, I forgot this:

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Andrew, the first two patches are also the most important and should go 
into 2.6.13.

bye, Roman