Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> to den 01.09.2005 Klokka 20:45 (-0700) skreiv Andrew Morton:
> > Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > +static inline int do_posix_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t
> > > length)
> > > +{
> > > + /* In SuS/Posix lore, truncate to the current file size is a
> > > no-op */
> > > + if (length == i_size_read(dentry->d_inode))
> > > + return 0;
> > > + return do_truncate(dentry, length);
> > > +}
> >
> > We have the same optimisation in inode_setattr()...
>
> Look again. The two are NOT the same.
>
> The code in inode_setattr() will cause truncate() to erroneously update
> the ctime/mtime.
Of course. But with your patch, the optimisation in inode_setattr() is
redundant (except for O_TRUNC, perhaps).
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