On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:01:36PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: >> On the other hand, most of the time writes into the directory will >> tend to be into pre-existing free space; but if you had two parallel >> cp's copying a large number of files into the same directory, that >> could certainly happen. > > isn't access to a directory protected with i_mutex ? Hmm, good point. Yes, that should prevent problems with directories. So there should only be a problem when two processes are writing to the same file at the same time. - Ted -- 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
