On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:37:51PM -0700, mdf_at_FreeBSD.org wrote: > VOP_GETEXTATTR is currently called with an exclusive lock, which seems > like overkill for what is essentially a read operation. I had a look > over the various in-tree filesystems and it didn't look like any of > them will have a problem if a shared-mode lock is used for > vop_getextattr. > > Does anyone know otherwise? Is someone using extended attributes > regularly who can test this? I think this change should be fine. At least it seems to for UFS. What other filesystems did you audited ?
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