On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:21:20PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > We need to call vmtruncate before 9p setattr operation, otherwise we > could write back some dirty pages between setattr with ATTR_SIZE and vmtruncate > causing some truncated pages to be written back to server Please read the documentation. vmtruncate is deprecated and no new users may be added at this point. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html