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

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:19:45 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Tao Ma <tao.ma@...cle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> 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.

Oh right, you start a new transaction there.  Sorry, ignore my request
and keep it as it is for now.  I don't think doing truncatate in separate
transactions actually is correct, though but that's no change with this
patch.
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