From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lockfs - vfs bits
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418081659.GA8972@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040417163007.67d23c10.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:30:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> >
> > These are the generic lockfs bits. Basically it takes the XFS freezing
> > statemachine into the VFS. It's all behind the kernel-doc documented
> > freeze_bdev and thaw_bdev interfaces.
>
> Do we expect to see snapshotting patches for other filesystems arise as a
> result of this?
Other filesystems already implement the write_super_lockfs and unlockfs
methods and should just work. An earlier version of this patch is in
SuSE's tree and I think they've tested it with ext3 and reiserfs.
Similarly even earlier variants are in the 2.4 vendor trees. Those
filesystem don't really use the state machine to avoid starting new
transactions, so to get results as reliable as XFS they need soem more
work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-18 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-17 22:06 [PATCH 1/3] lockfs - vfs bits Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-17 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-18 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-04-19 13:43 ` Chris Mason
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