Re: how to write get_block?

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>AFAICS. The next thing I'm going to do is a (dumb) implementation of
>blocking rwlocks. write() being reader and truncate() - writer. 

To make the design of the code simpler write(2) should be a writer too.

All the VM checks i_size without any lock. So if you don't want to play
with everything you should grab the writer lock at the VFS layer if you
know your path may change i_size in any way (and write definitely can).

Andrea