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SubjectRe: Deletion of big files...


On Mon, 17 May 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 03:23:56 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
>
> I'm not sure... Look: we spend time *not* in unlink() pre se. It's a final
> truncate(). And at the moment when it's called we *know* that we are sole
> owners of the thing and nothing else will ever try to touch it.
>
> Careful here. One the reasons why truncate is so complicated is that we
> are *not* always the sole owners of the file. This comes up because
> truncate() isn't just called from unlink. It can also be called from

Yes, indeed. Sorry, I should have formulate it more clean - what I
mean is that since we have a very special case in delete_inode() we might
simplify *this case* big way compared to full-fledged truncate().


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