Not sure why I put this in as down_write originally; all we are doing is walking the tree, nothing will change under us and concurrent reads should be no problem. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/extents.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -3309,10 +3309,10 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, str * Walk the extent tree gathering extent information. * ext4_ext_fiemap_cb will push extents back to user. */ - down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); + down_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); error = ext4_ext_walk_space(inode, start_blk, len_blks, ext4_ext_fiemap_cb, fieinfo); - up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); + up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); } return error; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html