Re: [PATCH] lockfs patch for 2.6

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Can we please rename write_super_lockfs to a sane name?
> 
> freeze_fs/thaw_fs sounds like a good name.
> 
Sure.

> This looks ugly.  What about returning the superblock from the freeze
> routine so you can simply pass it into the thaw routine?
> 
I like it, will do.

> 
> This looks grossly misnamed again.  And why do you need to have
> sync_super_locks splitted out?  Calling it on it's own doesn't make much
> sense.
> 

Would you like this better:

device mapper code:
	fsync_bdev(bdev);
	s = freeze_fs(bdev);
	< create snap shot >
	thaw_fs(bdev, s);

thaw_fs needs the bdev so it can up the bdev mount semaphore.

-chris