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

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:32:44 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 4/4] fs: tmpfs, ext2 use new truncate

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.

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