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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:22:08 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:08:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Btw, this code is still not quite right. We really need to call > > ->setattr instead of vmtruncate here. Complex filesystem need > > transaction to properly free blocks, and those transactions are in > > ->setattr not inside vmtruncate where ->truncate doesn't even have > > a chance to get the handle to the transaction passed. > > > > As these patches don't make it worse this is not a NACK, but more of > > a heads up. > > Sure. Maybe add a FIXME comment for now? Ok. I was planning to look into this again, and IIRC Dave already did when he was at SGI, but his proof of concept patches got lost somewhere. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ---end quoted text--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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