Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jun 11 2010 - 03:19:58 EST


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> On 06/11/2010 02:56 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >This looks correct, but still has the second if ATTR_SIZE block that
> >I commented on last time. I'd really prefer if the filesystems could
> >move the truncate handling into a single conditional to simplify
> >auditing for it and possibly splitting it out into a separate method
> >later.
> oh, that would be much work for ocfs2 to do from my perspective. So I
> would really want to leave it as-is and I have add it to my to-do list.

Oh right, you start a new transaction there. Sorry, ignore my request
and keep it as it is for now. I don't think doing truncatate in separate
transactions actually is correct, though but that's no change with this
patch.
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