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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bmap-vs-truncate race
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:52 -0400
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:20:24PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm submitting this patch for 2.6.30 merge window.

Please not.  i_alloc_sem is really a horrible hack needed for a couple
filesystems only and we should not leak it into more generic code but
rather move the few instances into the filesystem.