Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:03:33 -0400 | From | Jeff Layton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens |
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:50:37 +0000 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:47:02PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > Yeah that would be cleaner on the wire for the create case. It's not > > clear to me how to implement that though. There doesn't appear to be > > a straightforward way to tell the VFS to skip the truncate. > > The plan is to turn most of the guts of do_last() into fs method...
Thanks Al, that makes sense.
Does the patch I've proposed look reasonable in the interim? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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