Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> writes: > [Adding fsdevel list] > > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 10:05:47 am Meelis Roos wrote: >> Jeff Robertson analyzes the behaviour of different operating systems' >> 64-bit file offset implementation and concludes that on 32-bit >> machines, Linux and Solaris lack any locking to keep the two 32-bit >> halves in sync and this could cause rare file offset corruption. >> >> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/21014.html > > AFAICS, this race is theoretically possible, but it is very hard (almost > impossible) to trigger with a sane file usage pattern. We discussed this extensively some time ago in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/20712/focus=20771 No solution so far -Andi -- 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
