Reiserfs currently doesn't set a llseek method for regular files, which means it will fall back to default_llseek. This means no one can seek beyond 2 Gigabytes on reiserfs, and that there's not protection vs the i_size updates from writers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/file.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2008-09-08 19:39:09.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2008-09-08 19:40:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ const struct file_operations reiserfs_fi .aio_write = generic_file_aio_write, .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, .splice_write = generic_file_splice_write, + .llseek = generic_file_llseek, }; const struct inode_operations reiserfs_file_inode_operations = { -- 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