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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:47:02PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:

> Yeah that would be cleaner on the wire for the create case. It's not
> clear to me how to implement that though. There doesn't appear to be
> a straightforward way to tell the VFS to skip the truncate.

The plan is to turn most of the guts of do_last() into fs method...