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

Eric Sandeen
2011-09-07T17:10:07Z

On 9/7/11 11:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:45:34PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>> Can you add this testcase to xfstests?
>>
>> Christoph,
>>
>> Isn't that just a matter of extending test 068 to ext4
>
> 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.

-Eric