From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz,
reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, jeffm@suse.com,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: Truncate blocks not used by a write (v2)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:48:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916144815.e544b319.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253121912-20718-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:25:12 +0200
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> It can happen that write does not use all the blocks allocated in write_begin
> either because of some filesystem error (like ENOSPC) or because page with
> data to write has been removed from memory. We truncate these blocks so that
> we don't have dangling blocks beyond i_size.
This clashes a bit with the kill-the-bkl/reiserfs stuff in linux-next.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 17:25 [PATCH] reiserfs: Truncate blocks not used by a write (v2) Jan Kara
2009-09-16 21:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-17 0:56 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-17 1:56 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-08 12:48 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-10-08 23:11 ` Stephen Rothwell
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