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SubjectRe: [patchlet] Removing unneeded line in vmtruncate() (2.4.0-t8p1)


On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:

> > ... except that comment is there for purpose. Expanding ->truncate()
> > should not set ->i_size until it's done with the metadata. You don't want
> > mappings on the part currently being expanded. It doesn't matter for ext2
> > and friends, but it's a problem for FAT and friends.
> >
>
> This is probably just me being a bit dense, but I am having problems
> understanding your comment. The code path affected by my patch (and
> where the comment is placed) is not part of the do_expand code path
> (the "Expanding ->truncate()" from your comment?). And in do_expand
> we already set i_size=offset before calling truncate(). Which you
> seem to object to?

Which is a bug that cannot be fixed until ->truncate() gets new
size as an explicit argument. And I doubt that having two similar methods
with different ways to pass parameter (->i_size vs. argument) would be a
good idea.

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