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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> I prefer my fix that simply recalls the ->truncate callback if -ENOSPC
> is returned by prepare_write. vmtruncate seems way overkill,

Actually, vmtruncate will trim the page off the inode as well as the
blocks from the file.  I don't think there's necessarily a problem
with having a page wholly outside i_size, but..

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