From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] truncate fixes
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 19:11:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3911F1.63E55E90@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C36DEA9.AEA2A402@zip.com.au>, <3C36DEA9.AEA2A402@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:08:25AM -0800 <20020107034654.G1561@athlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I prefer my fix that simply recalls the ->truncate callback if -ENOSPC
> is returned by prepare_write. vmtruncate seems way overkill,
Actually, vmtruncate will trim the page off the inode as well as the
blocks from the file. I don't think there's necessarily a problem
with having a page wholly outside i_size, but..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-05 11:08 [patch] truncate fixes Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 2:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 2:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 3:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 5:24 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 3:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-07 3:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 3:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 3:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 4:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 4:28 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 5:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 12:41 ` Daniel Phillips
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