In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Alan, fix is really quite simple. Especially if you have vmtruncate()
>returning int (ac1 used to do it, I didn't check later ones). Actually
>just a generic_cont_expand() done on expanding path in vmtruncate()
>will be enough - it should be OK for all cases, including normal
>filesystems. <grabbing -ac7>
>
>OK, any brave soul to test that? All I can promise that it builds.
This looks like it would create a dummy block even for non-broken
filesystems (ie truncating a file to be larger on ext2 would create a
block, no?). While that would work, it would also waste disk-space.
Linus
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