Re: [PATCH] fix bmap-vs-truncate race

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 13:55:11 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:20:24PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm submitting this patch for 2.6.30 merge window.

Please not. i_alloc_sem is really a horrible hack needed for a couple
filesystems only and we should not leak it into more generic code but
rather move the few instances into the filesystem.

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