Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:33:47 +0200 |
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> writes:
> [Adding fsdevel list] > > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 10:05:47 am Meelis Roos wrote: >> Jeff Robertson analyzes the behaviour of different operating systems' >> 64-bit file offset implementation and concludes that on 32-bit >> machines, Linux and Solaris lack any locking to keep the two 32-bit >> halves in sync and this could cause rare file offset corruption. >> >> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/21014.html > > AFAICS, this race is theoretically possible, but it is very hard (almost > impossible) to trigger with a sane file usage pattern.
We discussed this extensively some time ago in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/20712/focus=20771
No solution so far
-Andi
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