Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:58:21 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VFS readahead bug in 2.6.8-rc[1-3] |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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