Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs/9p: call vmtruncate before setattr 9p opeation

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:21:20PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We need to call vmtruncate before 9p setattr operation, otherwise we
> could write back some dirty pages between setattr with ATTR_SIZE and vmtruncate
> causing some truncated pages to be written back to server

Please read the documentation.  vmtruncate is deprecated and no new
users may be added at this point.

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