On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:38:10AM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Can I ask for truncate_complete_page() to be exported?
> For Lustre filesystem it is necessary to poke out pages in the middle of
> a file, but truncate_inode_pages() is not very suitable, because we
> poke those pages one at a time when locks on those pages are cancelled, but
> we cannot kill entire set of pages as a group, because there might be some
> other lock that covers a subset of those pages, so we still need to iterate
> through all of them, and while we are at it, it is easier to kill pages
> as we check them one by one.
Truncating around inside a file is very fishy, so this would need a review
of cour code. Once you submit the new lustre client we can discuss exporting
this as _GPL, before we won't export it anyway.
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