From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0FAgCU1002996 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:42:12 -0600 Received: from estes.americas.sgi.com (estes.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.10]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AA5AC003 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:42:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:48:15 -0600 From: "Bill O'Donnell" Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: allow xfs_freeze to work on non-xfs filesystems Message-ID: <20090115104815.GA21591@sgi.com> References: <496E6FB4.8070300@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496E6FB4.8070300@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Eric Sandeen Cc: xfs mailing list On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:05:24PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: | allow xfs_freeze to freeze "foreign" filesystems | | Now that the freeze ioctl has been elevated to the VFS, | let's let xfs_io and xfs_freeze freeze other filesystems | as well - add the CMD_FOREIGN_OK flag to freeze & thaw. | | I think the worst that will happen on older kernels is that | the command will fail with ENOSYS or EINVAL.... | | Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen | --- Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs