linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:16:13 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tao.ma@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, "tao.ma" <tao.ma@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

Hi Christoph,

On 06/11/2010 02:56 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This looks correct, but still has the second if ATTR_SIZE block that
> I commented on last time.  I'd really prefer if the filesystems could
> move the truncate handling into a single conditional to simplify
> auditing for it and possibly splitting it out into a separate method
> later.
oh, that would be much work for ocfs2 to do from my perspective. So I 
would really want to leave it as-is and I have add it to my to-do list.
>
> And btw, the S_ISREG check which you only have on the first ATTR_SIZE
> check is superflous, the VFS only does ATTR_SIZE calls on regular files.
yeah, I can remove it.

Regards,
Tao
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