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Querying file information and concurrent file access

Querying file information and concurrent file access

Posted Apr 29, 2011 13:09 UTC (Fri) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775)
In reply to: Querying file information and concurrent file access by abacus
Parent article: The return of SEEK_HOLE

The FIEMAP facility has a FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC option: "If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents" (quoting from Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt). But that does not lock anything ...


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