Re: [PATCH v2] 9p: fix i_size update race in getattr with writeback caching

From: David Howells

Date: Tue Feb 17 2026 - 09:48:52 EST


Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> do
> echo $i >> foo.txt &
> ls -lha foo.txt &
> done
>
> sync

Did you want a wait somewhere? There's no guarantee that the asynchronous
processes thereby launched have done anything at the point sync happens.

David