linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: Convert filesystem to the new truncate calling convention

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Message-ID: <20090922172347.GG14381@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:23:47 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: Convert filesystem to the new truncate
	calling convention

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 07:16:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > No.  We already have one half-finished series here; mixing it with another
> > one is not going to happen.  Such flags are tolerable only as bisectability
> > helpers.  They *must* disappear by the end of series.  Before it can be
> > submitted for merge.
> > 
> > In effect, you are mixing truncate switchover with your writepage one.
> > Please, split and reorder.

>   Well, this wasn't meant as a final version of those patches. It was
> meant as a request for comment whether it makes sence to fix the problem
> how I propose to fix it. If we agree on that, I'll go and convert the rest
> of filesystems so that we can remove .new_writepage hack. By that time I
> hope that new truncate sequence patches will be merged so that dependency
> should go away as well...

Could you carve just the ext4 part of truncate series out of that and
post it separately?
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