Re: (struct dentry *)-vfsmnt;

2001-03-15 Thread bsuparna
Actually, I'm pretty sure you _never_ need to exportvg in order to have it work on another system. That's one of the great things about AIX LVM, because it means you can move a VG to another system after a hardware problem, and not have any problems importing it (journaled fs also helps).

Re: i_size: why get complicated?

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: I'm not at all comfortable with the way we are handling i_size right now - it gets set in a funny way: - vmtruncate sets i_size lower - _commit_write sets it higher Coding for this feels

Re: i_size: why get complicated?

2001-03-15 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only file_write, truncate and high level filesystem code code should set i_size. That's only true for local filesystems. Networked filesystems can decide to set i_size at any time, since the server is the ultimate authority on a

Re: i_size: why get complicated?

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: " " == Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only file_write, truncate and high level filesystem code code should set i_size. That's only true for local filesystems. Networked filesystems can decide to set i_size at any time,

Re: i_size: why get complicated?

2001-03-15 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: " " == Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only file_write, truncate and high level filesystem code code should set i_size. That's only true for local