Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time through fs-wide dirty bit]

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:32:39AM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> Note that ext3's habit of clearing indirect blocks on truncate would
> break some things I want to do in the future. (Insert secret plans
> here.)

This is fixable, but it would require making the truncate code (even
more) complicated.....

						- Ted
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