linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for fiemap

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Message-ID: <20090518033703.GG32019@mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 23:37:03 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for
	fiemap

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Not sure why I put this in as down_write originally; all we are
> doing is walking the tree, nothing will change under us and
> concurrent reads should be no problem.

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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