Re: 2.4.20pre5aa1

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:48:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:41:25PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > other fs, if you're not holding the i_sem (and you certainly aren't
> > holding the i_sem that frequently, you don't even for writes).
> 
> Except of O_DIRECT writes we _do_ hold i_sem, btw.

can't you end with this?

					O_DIRECT write
					write finishes
	truncate drops the write
	truncate set i_sem to 0
					write set i_sem to something

and the fs is then corrupt? (very minor corruption of course and
extremely hard to trigger, trivially solvable by an fsck, ext[23] had
similar issues too with the get_block failures with < PAGE_SIZE
softblocksize, fixed around 2.4.19, that was certainly easier to
reproduce btw)

Andrea