Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:07:57 -0700 | From | Josef Bacik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: truncate at i_size |
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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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