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    SubjectRe: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans
    On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:08:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > Btw, this code is still not quite right. We really need to call
    > > ->setattr instead of vmtruncate here. Complex filesystem need
    > > transaction to properly free blocks, and those transactions are in
    > > ->setattr not inside vmtruncate where ->truncate doesn't even have
    > > a chance to get the handle to the transaction passed.
    > >
    > > As these patches don't make it worse this is not a NACK, but more of
    > > a heads up.
    >
    > Sure. Maybe add a FIXME comment for now?

    Ok. I was planning to look into this again, and IIRC Dave already did
    when he was at SGI, but his proof of concept patches got lost somewhere.

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