On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >"Before kernel 2.6.16 the i_node locking in VFS was semaphore based. Now > >mutex are used." > > mutex documentation says mutexes should not be held across > kernelspace/userspace switches IIRC. Hmm.... /me looks in the general direction of copyup Jeff.