Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:31:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Still ext2-corruption in test8-pre5 (incl. OOPS) |
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > How about reverting to compare-and-write-if-nonzero variant? > _That_ will be definitely legal.
Yes, but I would really hate to have the case that a (shortening) truncate could fail due to disk-full issues.
I think that's just wrong (sure, I can see some filesystem where it happens because of how the filesystem is done, but basically I think we should avoid it if possible. Which it is).
Linus
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