linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] fat: add fat

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Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:27:25 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.sahrawat@...sung.com,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] fat: add fat_fallocate operation

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:

>>> +	/* Release unwritten fallocated blocks on file release. */
>>> +	if (round_up(inode->i_size, sb->s_blocksize) <
>>> +	    MSDOS_I(inode)->i_disksize && inode->i_nlink != 0)
>>> +		fat_truncate_blocks(inode, inode->i_size);
>>> +
>>>  	truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
>>>  	if (!inode->i_nlink) {
>>>  		inode->i_size = 0;

[...]

>> And inode->i_size should be ->mmu_private?
> Sorry, I don't understand your question yet...
> Could you elaborate more ?

"if" part is checking "round_up(->i_size) < ->i_disksize", but I guess
fallocate() truncation should be only needed if there is uninitialized
data. So, I felt that part should check ->mmu_private and ->i_disksize.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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