Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: Remove the deprecated inode_setattr.

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On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:12:07AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:38:04PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:29:37PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> > > We have a inode_newsize_ok check at the top of ocfs2_setattr when we
> > > do the real work of truncate(it is far above, so the patch can't
> > > have it. ;) ). So we don't need to worry about that actually.
> > 
> > OK, can you comment that or just open-code the truncate part of
> > simple_setsize? It should be helpful for example with Christoph's
> > truncate cleanup work.
> 
> 	Just open-code it.  The void calls are much nicer than useless
> return code boilerplate. 

Note that if you rebase against vfs.git #for_next simple_setsize is
replaced with a truncate_setsize that does all the work but the
inode_newsize_ok check.  As I mentioned before please do the work ontop
of that branch, it does make the ->setattr ATTR_SIZE implementation much
nicer for the filesystems.

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