I see a lot of file system code in fs/*/*.c which does not use i_size_read and i_size_write (some of it does but not all). Does that mean that all of those file systems (including ext3 and such) are not safe under certain conditions?! (e.g., 32-bit SMP/PREMPT kernels as per the comment above i_size_read in fs.h) Should everyone use i_size_read/write exclusively? If not, are there conditions where it's safe not to use these helpers and you can access inode->i_size directly? I couldn't find documentation to suggest that dereferencing inode->i_size is ok at times. Thanks, Erez. -- 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
