Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760620AbXJZAlB (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:41:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752860AbXJZAkw (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:40:52 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50599 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752079AbXJZAkv (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:40:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:43:25 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mike Waychison Cc: linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement for FIBMAP Message-ID: <20071026014325.14f5fe1c@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <47213668.50907@google.com> References: <20071025230758.945535769@crlf.corp.google.com> <20071026012217.4cc30390@the-village.bc.nu> <47213668.50907@google.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 14 > I found Chris's comment about negative block numbers, I'll send a patch > out for that. > > You mentioned back in 99 about racing with ftruncate. Is it sufficient > to mutex_lock(i_mutex) and down_read(i_alloc_sem)? One for the fs guys. That code has changed far beyond anything I understand any more 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/