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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tmpfs: truncate at i_size
On 06/16/2015 01:02 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2015, Josef Bacik wrote:
>
>> If we fallocate past i_size with KEEP_SIZE, extend the file to use some but not
>> all of this space, and then truncate(i_size) we won't trim the excess
>> preallocated space. We decided at LSF that we want to truncate the fallocated
>> bit past i_size when we truncate to i_size, which is what this patch does.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
>
> Sorry for the delay, it's been on my mind but only now I get to it.
> Yes, that was agreed at LSF, and I've checked that indeed tmpfs is
> out of line here: thank you for fixing it. But I do prefer your
> original more explicit description, so I'll send the patch to akpm
> now for v4.2, with that description instead (plus a reference to LSF).
>

Sounds good, thanks Hugh.

Josef



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