From: Pat Emblen <support@talbragar.com.au>
To: 694624@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#694624: /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze: freezes under lying (root)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:31:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BBE4BC.3060708@talbragar.com.au> (raw)
Well it's your call, but I'll make my case for changing it.
- I think it is very dangerous default behaviour, particularly in
scripts as it can prevent
the possibility of logging in to unfreeze a frozen root.
- The docs all strongly imply that it operates on mountpoints, so surely
not many people
would have diliberately used it on general paths?"
xfs_freeze -f | -u mount-point"
"The mount-point argument is the pathname of the directory where the
file system is mounted."
- Because of the name and the wording of the man page, you don't expect
xfs_freeze to
freeze an ext4 file system that isn't even mounted on the path you pass
to it?!
- It's logical to have it work on mountpoints only. You wouldn't expect
umount or fdisk to
work the same way? Do any other partition level tools work this way?
- At the very least I would expect it to require a 'force' option if it
was going to freeze
the root system.
Thanks.
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2012-12-02 23:31 Pat Emblen [this message]
2012-12-03 21:48 ` Bug#694624: /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze: freezes under lying (root) Dave Chinner
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2012-12-03 23:53 Pat Emblen
2012-12-04 2:15 ` Dave Chinner
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