Re: [patch 1/1] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement for FIBMAP

Alan Cox
2007-10-26T00:41:01Z

> I found Chris's comment about negative block numbers, I'll send a patch
> out for that.
>
> You mentioned back in 99 about racing with ftruncate. Is it sufficient
> to mutex_lock(i_mutex) and down_read(i_alloc_sem)?

One for the fs guys. That code has changed far beyond anything I
understand any more 8)