Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 1/6] Freezer: Do not sync filesystems

Matthew Garrett
2007-07-10T00:31:45Z

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:12:09AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> >
> > The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed.
> > Also, if FUSE implements sync, this will cause the freezer to deadlock with it.
>
> While this is right, I do not think it is good enough reason for a
> change. I mean, sync there currently hurts noone....

It's a problem if you have an ext3 filesystem loopback mounted from a
fuse filesystem...

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