From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06886B004D for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:24:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:32:44 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 4/4] fs: tmpfs, ext2 use new truncate Message-ID: <20090708123244.GA22722@infradead.org> References: <20090707144423.GC2714@wotan.suse.de> <20090707144918.GF2714@wotan.suse.de> <20090707163829.GB14947@infradead.org> <20090708065327.GM2714@wotan.suse.de> <20090708111420.GB20924@duck.suse.cz> <20090708122250.GP2714@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090708122250.GP2714@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org