Re: [PATCH] ovl: copy-up optimization for truncate

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 ---- 在 星期一, 2021-03-29 23:13:52 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> 撰写 ----
 > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:17 PM Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >
 > > Currently copy-up will copy whole lower file to upper
 > > regardless of the data range which is needed for further
 > > operation. This patch avoids unnecessary copy when truncate
 > > size is smaller than the file size.
 > 
 > This doesn't look right.   If copy up succeeds, resulting in a
 > truncated file, then we should return success there and then.   Doing
 > the truncate again and failing (unlikely, but I wouldn't think it
 > impossible) wouldn't be nice.

Hi Miklos

I noticed a problem here, if we just return success after copy-up then mtime
keeps the same as lower file. I think doing the truncate again would be better
than manually updating the upper file's mtime. What do you think for this?

Thanks,
Chengguang





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