Skip to content
  • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
    xfs: new truncate sequence · fa9b227e
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    
    
    Convert XFS to the new truncate sequence.  We still can have errors after
    updating the file size in xfs_setattr, but these are real I/O errors and lead
    to a transaction abort and filesystem shutdown, so they are not an issue.
    
    Errors from ->write_begin and write_end can now be handled correctly because
    we can actually get rid of the delalloc extents while previous the buffer
    state was stipped in block_invalidatepage.
    
    There is still no error handling for ->direct_IO, because doing so will need
    some major restructuring given that we only have the iolock shared and do not
    hold i_mutex at all.  Fortunately leaving the normally allocated blocks behind
    there is not a major issue and this will get cleaned up by xfs_free_eofblock
    later.
    
    Note: the patch is against Al's vfs.git tree as that contains the nessecary
    preparations.  I'd prefer to get it applied there so that we can get some
    testing in linux-next.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    fa9b227e