Re: Change in NFS client behavior

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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.

Cheers,
  Trond

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