Re: 2.6.2-rc2 nfsd+xfs spins in i_size_read()

Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-30T22:54:14Z

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If two CPUs hit i_size_write() at the same time we have a bug. That
> function requires that the caller provide external serialisation, via i_sem.

O_APPEND|O_DIRECT writes could do that under XFS..