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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Ted Augustine <taugustine@techpathways.com>,
	Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xt4 - True Readonly mount [WAS - Re: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards]
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:05:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9EA6C408-DC45-457F-B7FA-93F08A769E78@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEF64ED.1040703@redhat.com>

On 2009-11-02, at 16:02, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> I thought Takashi Sato was working on allowing a filesystem freeze
>> ioctl from userspace?  This would hook into the filesystem-specific
>> freeze code so that when the ioctl() returns the on-disk filesystem
>> is fully consistent and does not even require journal replay.
>
> That's in and done; most recent xfsprogs' xfs_freeze utility will  
> even freeze non-xfs filesystems now :)  Otherwise a wrapper utility  
> around the ioctl would be trivial to write.


It probably makes sense to add a tune2fs option to freeze and unfreeze  
the
filesystem?  That would allow ext* users to have an available/documented
command even if they don't have xfsprogs installed.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-04  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-30 14:20 xt4 - True Readonly mount [WAS - Re: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards] Greg Freemyer
2009-10-30 15:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-30 15:31   ` Alexey Fisher
2009-10-30 16:14     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-30 16:52       ` Alexey Fisher
2009-10-30 17:13         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-30 17:43           ` Duane Griffin
2009-10-30 15:47 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-01  5:45 ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-02 21:59   ` Greg Freemyer
2009-11-02 22:53     ` Andreas Dilger
2009-11-02 23:02       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-04  8:05         ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-11-04 16:20           ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-03 13:52     ` Theodore Tso

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