Hi, may I kindly request that some knowledgeable person in an altruistic mood would write a brief description of the I_LOCK bit of an inode and either send it here or even better add it to Documentation/filesystems? I have a fuzzy idea about it from reading the source but I keep on finding new uses every now and then (and forgetting about those I found long time ago). For example I realized write_inode() is called with I_LOCK locked only after I deadlocked on it :-( Thank you very much in advance, Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html