Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:22:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Still ext2-corruption in test8-pre5 (incl. OOPS) |
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is basically all due to the fact that the new truncate logic does a > "__block_commit_write()" without ever having itself called any of the > routines that establish the buffers (a regular write will always have > called "__block_prepare_write()" first, for example.) > > We really should have done a true "block_truncate_write()", but it looked > so clever to just re-use the existing code. Fair enough.
How about reverting to compare-and-write-if-nonzero variant? _That_ will be definitely legal.
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