Re: [rfc][patch 4/4] fs: tmpfs, ext2 use new truncate

Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-08T12:32:56Z

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:22:50PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK fair enough. But I don't know if all those checks are
> realy appropriate. For example an IS_APPEND inode should
> be able to have its blocks trimmed off if a write fails.

It should. But I think that's a separate issue of what we're trying to
fix right now. So let's just do the method reshuffle now and then sort
out the checks later.