Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 02:07:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patchlet] Removing unneeded line in vmtruncate() (2.4.0-t8p1) |
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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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