Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> It's acceptable. > > It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the > same time. OK, that part I was fuzzy on. I wasn't sure if they were preventing other reads/writes to the same file somehow. I should have mentioned that. Cheers, Jeff -- 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