On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:53:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If writes/truncates take care of zeroing out the rest of the sector
> > on disk, might we still be OK without having to do the bounce buffer
> > thing ?
>
> We can probably rely on the rest of the sector outside i_size being zeroed
> anyway. Because if it contains non-zero gunk then the fs already has a
> problem, and the user can get at that gunk with an expanding truncate and
> mmap() anyway.
Actually, yeah, even today we rely on block_prepare_write and
friends to handle that trail zeroing. That all happens after the sector
has been read from disk. So this should be analogous.
Joel
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