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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Dave Chinner" <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] fsfreeze: add vfs ioctl to check freeze state
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:45:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120715224517.GD2920@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120713135454.GI20361@quack.suse.cz>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 03:54:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 12-07-12 18:10:14, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> > The FIISFROZEN ioctl can be use by HA and monitoring software to check
> > the freeze state of a mounted filesystem.

Can you explain in more detail why the HA system needs to check this?
And, for that matter, what it does with that information?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-15 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12  8:57 [PATCH 0/8 v2] fsfreeze: miscellaneous fixes and cleanups Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:02 ` [PATCH 1/8] fsfreeze: Prevent emergency thaw from looping infinitely Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 12:59   ` Jan Kara
2012-07-17  5:13     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] fsfreeze: emergency thaw will deadlock on s_umount Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 13:17   ` Jan Kara
2012-08-09  6:00     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-09-13  6:23     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:05 ` [PATCH 3/8] fsfreeze: freeze_super and thaw_bdev don't play well together Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 13:45   ` Jan Kara
2012-08-09  9:00     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:07 ` [PATCH 4/8] fsfreeze: switch to using super methods where possible Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 13:50   ` Jan Kara
2012-07-12  9:09 ` [PATCH 5/8] fsfreeze: move emergency thaw code to fs/super.c Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 13:53   ` Jan Kara
2012-07-12  9:10 ` [PATCH 6/8] fsfreeze: add vfs ioctl to check freeze state Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 13:54   ` Jan Kara
2012-07-15 22:45     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-09-13  6:19       ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-09-13  7:18         ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-13  8:19           ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-09-14  0:15             ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-14  1:46               ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-09-14  6:28                 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-14  8:18                   ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-09-13  6:11     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:11 ` [PATCH 7/8] fsfreeze: add block device " Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-12  9:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] fsfreeze: update Documentation/filesystems/Locking Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-07-13 14:11   ` Jan Kara
2012-07-17  1:42     ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao

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