On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:42:39AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The problem with truncate is that the VFS assumes truncate() will > always succeed (the method function is returns a void, so there isn't > even a way to propagate an error code back p to the VFS), so we really > do need to do a retry in ext4's truncate code. It hasn't for a long time. The ill suite truncate method is gone for a long time, and setattr can return errors just fine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
