Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:42:56 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: Truncate blocks not used by a write |
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > It can happen that write does not use all the blocks allocated in write_begin > either because of some filesystem error (like ENOSPC) or because page with > data to write has been removed from memory. We truncate these blocks so that > we don't have dangling blocks beyond i_size.
vmtruncate is in the process of going away for 2.6.32. Please use a filesystems-specific routine to just trim the blocks, similar to what the vmtruncate call in the generic write_begin helper is beeing replaced with in Nick's truncate patch series.
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