On Thu 10-04-08 18:03:35, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:09 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> escribió: > > > I think this is worth fixing. > > This question comes very often, and Linus even wrote a patch > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 , http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130) > > But apparently there's no much interest in fixing it, because it would > slow down some workloads... Well, what Linus writes about is a different issue (and with a more costly solution). Here we are concerned just with the problem that file->f_pos = pos; isn't atomic on some archs. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
