Re: [Ecryptfs-devel] [PATCH] ecryptfs: some inode attrs, and aquestion

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 10:01:55 EST


On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 11:17 +0900, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dave Kleikamp:
> > For a regular file, the size of the upper inode is not the same as the
> > size of the lower inode. The lower inode includes the header blocks
> > which are not visible in the upper inode. So ecryptfs_interpose() will
> > overwrite the correct upper inode size.
>
> Then it means updating i_size in ecryptfs_link() is unnecessary...

It's restoring i_size to the correct value after ecryptfs_interpose
updates it with the wrong value.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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