Hi, I came across the following question: What is the proper locking for using i_flags? I've noticed i_flags are read freely without any lock. The modifications I've seen e.g. in ext3 were done under i_mutex. Is this right? BTW it means that when checking i_flags we can see intermediate states in ext3_set_inode_flags() when all flags are cleared and the proper flags are not yet set, right? I'm currently playing with something like inotify for subtree and I'd need to modify i_flags but using i_mutex unpleasantly interferes with directory locking... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SuSE CR Labs - 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
