From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <020901c4b46f$b837ca10$8fd27d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] truncation via wstat on ken's fs Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:35:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef819ef6-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Changing the length is easy, but giving back the no-longer-needed > blocks is messy, involving a recursive walk of the indirect blocks. doesn't this fall out of the remove case? i remember chris maltby hacking 32V so that it would truncate to a point [unlink]. or, does remove do some other trickery?