Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature

Pavel Machek
2008-07-08T13:37:31Z

Hi!

> I still disagree with this whole patch. There is not reason to let
> the freeze request timeout - an auto-unfreezing will only confuse the
> hell out of the caller. The only reason where the current XFS freeze
> call can hang and this would be theoretically useful is when the

What happens when someone dirties so much data that vm swaps out
whatever process that frozen the filesystem?

I though that was why the timeout was there...
Pavel
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