From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: correct use of vmtruncate()?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430074738.GC7791@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429100601.GO108924158@sgi.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:06:01PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Folks,
>
> It appears to me that vmtruncate() is not used correctly in
> block_write_begin() and friends. The short summary is that it
> appears that the usage in these functions implies that vmtruncate()
> should cause truncation of blocks on disk but no filesystem
> appears to do this, nor does the documentation imply they should.
Looking at ext*_truncate, I see we are freeing blocks as a part of vmtruncate.
Or did I miss something ?
-aneesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 10:06 David Chinner
2008-04-29 17:10 ` Zach Brown
2008-04-29 21:52 ` David Chinner
2008-04-30 7:24 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-04-30 15:55 ` Zach Brown
2008-04-30 3:46 ` David Chinner
2008-04-30 7:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2008-04-30 10:15 ` David Chinner
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