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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the vfs tree
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:47:46 -0500
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Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:00:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 04-01-12 13:50:20, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:17:54AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > I'm still not
> > > sure about ->statfs(), BTW - any input on that would be welcome.  Can
> > > it end up blocked on a frozen fs until said fs is thawed?
> > 
> > I don't see why this should ever happen - ->statfs has to work on
> > read-only filesystems so shoul dnot be modifying state, and hence
> > should never need to care about the frozen state of the superblock.
>   Well, I'm also not aware of a filesystem where ->statfs would wait on
> frozen filesystem. Just note that e.g. for stat(2) frozen filesystem and
> RO filesystem *are* different because of atime updates. So stat(2) can
> block on frozen fs because of atime update while on RO filesystem it is
> just fine.

Neither of those should cause atime updates.