Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 12:16:34 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: O_TRUNC problem on a full filesystem |
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:55:48PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> When you truncated your file, the blocks remained preallocated > on behalf of the file, and were hence considered "used". For > some reason, a subsequent attempt to allocate blocks for the > same file failed to use that file's preallocated blocks.
Nope. ext2_truncate() calls ext2_discard_prealloc() to fix this up. Both 2.2 and 2.4 do this correctly.
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