Theodore Tso wrote:
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.
I guess reading can corrupt it as well ?
thanks, Alex
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