Re: [PATCH v4] ocfs2: Let ocfs2_setattr use new truncate sequence.

From: Joel Becker
Date: Fri Jun 11 2010 - 03:55:54 EST


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:50:20AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:19:45AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> > > oh, that would be much work for ocfs2 to do from my perspective. So I
> > > would really want to leave it as-is and I have add it to my to-do list.
> >
> > Oh right, you start a new transaction there. Sorry, ignore my request
> > and keep it as it is for now. I don't think doing truncatate in separate
> > transactions actually is correct, though but that's no change with this
> > patch.
>
> Christoph,
> You're missing the part where actual truncate (reduce i_size)
> sets i_size in ocfs2_truncate_file(). So this later code doesn't get
> triggered for the truncate case. It exists for the extend case, where
> we extend the allocation in multiple clean transactions, then finally
> set i_size in a final transaction.

Actually, ocfs2_extend_file() appears to handle it too. I don't
think it used to - there were places that had issues with
commit_write()'s update of i_size, etc. But that's ancient history. I
wonder if Mark knows.

joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
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