Re: [PATCH v2] ext3: Convert ext3 to new truncate calling convention

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:23:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > This doesn't look quite correct me.  One of the major points of the
> > new truncate sequence is to to *_truncate_page before updating i_size,
> > so that we can properly handle an error there.  With your patch it's
> > still called too late.
>   OK, I missed this point (frankly, handling of error from
> ext3_block_truncate_page() does not seem like a huge win when we cannot
> handle error anywhere else during truncate but it's an improvement I
> agree). I'll move ext3_block_truncate_page() before the setting of i_size.
> Thanks for having a look at the patch.

Btw, I think ext4 has the same issue.

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