Re: [rfc][patch 4/4] fs: tmpfs, ext2 use new truncate

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On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:14:20PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 08-07-09 08:53:27, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:38:29PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > We can't move this to the caller easily.  ext2_delete_inode gets
> > > called for all inodes, but we only want to go on truncating for the
> > > limited set that passes this check.
> > 
> > Hmm, shouldn't they have no ->i_blocks in that case?
>   Not necessarily. Inode can have extended attributes set and those can
> be stored in a special block which is accounted in i_blocks.

OK fair enough. But I don't know if all those checks are
realy appropriate. For example an IS_APPEND inode should
be able to have its blocks trimmed off if a write fails.

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