Re: [PATCH] VFS readahead bug in 2.6.8-rc[1-3]

[Nick Piggin]

Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > On second thought, maybe not. I think your filesystem is at fault.
>
>
> No I'm not wrong here. With a read-only filesystem i_size can
> never change, there are no possible race conditions.  If a too
> large index is passed it is a VFS bug.  Are you suggesting I should
> start to code assuming the VFS is broken?

No, I suggest you start to code assuming this interface does
what it does. I didn't say there is no bug here, but nobody
else's filesystem breaks.
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