Re: 2.6.2-rc2 nfsd+xfs spins in i_size_read()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If two CPUs hit i_size_write() at the same time we have a bug.  That
> function requires that the caller provide external serialisation, via i_sem.

O_APPEND|O_DIRECT writes could do that under XFS..

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