From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS readahead bug in 2.6.8-rc[1-3]
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:58:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4113D4CD.5080109@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4113B8A2.4050609@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>> On second thought, maybe not. I think your filesystem is at fault.
>
>
> No I'm not wrong here. With a read-only filesystem i_size can
> never change, there are no possible race conditions. If a too
> large index is passed it is a VFS bug. Are you suggesting I should
> start to code assuming the VFS is broken?
>
No, I suggest you start to code assuming this interface does
what it does. I didn't say there is no bug here, but nobody
else's filesystem breaks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-06 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-05 17:50 [PATCH] VFS readahead bug in 2.6.8-rc[1-3] Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 0:55 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-06 2:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-06 16:58 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 18:58 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-06 19:14 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 19:31 ` viro
2004-08-06 19:18 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 7:55 ` [PATCH] " Ram Pai
2004-08-07 14:21 ` Pozsar Balazs
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408052104420.2241-100000@dyn319181.beaverton.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <411322E8.4000503@yahoo.com.au>
2004-08-06 10:47 ` Ram
2004-08-06 17:05 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 18:02 ` Ram Pai
2004-08-06 19:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-06 19:39 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-08-06 20:21 ` Nick Piggin
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