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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:41:25PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> other fs, if you're not holding the i_sem (and you certainly aren't
> holding the i_sem that frequently, you don't even for writes).

Except of O_DIRECT writes we _do_ hold i_sem, btw.

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