Re: [BUG] ext3: cannot unfreeze a filesystem due to a deadlock

Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07T17:17:40Z

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:10:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > If you have recent enough xfsprogs that allow the freeze command
> > for foreign filesystems that might work.
>
> where "recent enough" is since Tue Feb 10 14:41:51 2009 -0600
>
> I say go for it :)
>
> Could always add a quick helper to make sure the xfs_io command
> doesn't fail on freeze, and _notrun if it does.

With the _notrun trick it could probably even claim generic fs
support.