linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 3/4] fs: new truncate sequence

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Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:47:18 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 3/4] fs: new truncate sequence

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:55:51AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> I wish you would split it.
> 
> one - helper to be called by converted file systems
>       (Which just ignores the ATTR_SIZE)
> second - to be set into .setattr which does the simple_setsize + above.
> 
> More clear for FS users like me (and that ugly unmask of ATTR_SIZE)
> 
> or it's just me?

Yeah, that seems be a lot cleaner.  But let's wait until we got
rid of ->truncate for all filesystems to have the bigger picture.

> 
> Thanks
> Boaz
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