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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I prefer my fix that simply recalls the ->truncate callback if -ENOSPC > is returned by prepare_write. vmtruncate seems way overkill, No opinion on that here. This is what was in -ac. Perhaps Al can comment? > and after > calling ->truncate the __block_prepare_changes above won't be necessary > because the leftover will be correctly deallocated (no need to clear > them out and to mark them dirty, they will just go away before any > readpage can see them). No, this code is needed if the write is _inside_ i_size, to an uninstantiated block. truncate won't remove those blocks, and we've gone and added them to the file. - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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