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SubjectRe: [patchlet] Removing unneeded line in vmtruncate() (2.4.0-t8p1)


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Rasmus, you introduced a bug because you removed the code but left the
> comment around. now /* this should go into ->truncate */ is there and very
> confusing - what should go into ->truncate?

... except that comment is there for purpose. Expanding ->truncate()
should not set ->i_size until it's done with the metadata. You don't want
mappings on the part currently being expanded. It doesn't matter for ext2
and friends, but it's a problem for FAT and friends.

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