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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?