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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] fsfreeze: add vfs ioctl to check freeze state
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:45:17 +1000
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 03:54:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 12-07-12 18:10:14, Fernando Luis V=E1zquez Cao wrote:
> > The FIISFROZEN ioctl can be use by HA and monitoring software to ch=
eck
> > 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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