Re: [PATCH 2.5.68 2/2] i_size atomic access

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:05:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And if the race _does_ hit, what is the effect?  Assuming stat() was fixed
> with i_sem, I don't think the race has a very serious effect.  We won't

writepage needs it too to avoid returning -EIO and I doubt you want to
take the i_sem in writepage

readpage is another obvious candidate where taking the i_sem is not an
option (even if it's one not risking to lose info in the fs, but it can
lose info in userspace or generate a malfunction).

Andrea