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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.

  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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