Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:54:15 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [rfc][patch 3/4] fs: new truncate sequence |
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On 07/13/2009 09:59 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:47:18AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:55:51AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> I wish you would split it. >>> >>> one - helper to be called by converted file systems >>> (Which just ignores the ATTR_SIZE) >>> second - to be set into .setattr which does the simple_setsize + above. >>> >>> More clear for FS users like me (and that ugly unmask of ATTR_SIZE) >>> >>> or it's just me? >> Yeah, that seems be a lot cleaner. But let's wait until we got >> rid of ->truncate for all filesystems to have the bigger picture. > > Agreed, if it is a common sequence / requirement for filesystems > then of course I will not object to a helper to make things clearer > or share code. > > I would like to see inode_setattr renamed into simple_setattr, and > then also .setattr made mandatory, so I don't like to cut code out > of inode_setattr which makes it unable to be the simple_setattr > after the old truncate code is removed. >
I thought you meant inode_setattr will go away. There will only be simple_setattr() and inode_setattr_nosize()
For the time been simple_setattr() will also take care of old ->truncate FSs. And in the absence of .setattr simple_setattr() is called. Have I miss-understood?
again please tell me when all this is in effect I want to do the conversion in exofs.
[BTW these changes are a life saver for me in regard to the kind of things I need to do for pNFS-exports]
Thanks Boaz
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