linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use truncate_pagecache() in collapse range

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Message-ID: <20140418142153.GA31794@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:21:53 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, namjae.jeon@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use truncate_pagecache() in collapse range

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> We should be using truncate_pagecache() instead of
> truncate_pagecache_range() in the collapse range because we're
> truncating page cache from offset to the end of file.
> truncate_pagecache() also get rid of the private COWed pages from the
> range because we're going to shift the end of the file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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