On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:15:30PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Won't happen:
>
>
> O_DIRECT write starts
> + takes XFS iolock exclusive
> - invalidates pagecache
> + downgrades iolock to shared
> - perform write
>
> xfs_setattr for truncate called
> + takes XFS iolock shared
^^^ exclusive ^^^
> -> blocks
>
> - write i_size to something
> + releases iolock
> -> gets woken
>
> -
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