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[Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 11:17 +0900, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dave Kleikamp:
> > For a regular file, the size of the upper inode is not the same as the
> > size of the lower inode.  The lower inode includes the header blocks
> > which are not visible in the upper inode.  So ecryptfs_interpose() will
> > overwrite the correct upper inode size.
> 
> Then it means updating i_size in ecryptfs_link() is unnecessary...

It's restoring i_size to the correct value after ecryptfs_interpose
updates it with the wrong value.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center