[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: llseek requires to ocfs2 inode lock for the file in SEEK_END

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:34:19 -0700 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIR, this behavior has been there since day 1 and changing it will impact
> performance negatively. I would recommend against making this change for
> one app.

Well, it's a bug fix isn't it?  SEEK_END on a 15k file is presently returning
10k.

Obviously tradeoffs are involved - is there any way in which this
behaviour can be fixed without serious performance damage?