Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: Do not sync filesystems from within the freezer

Miklos Szeredi
2007-07-06T07:14:17Z

> To get more serious and practical though, I think the solution is to
> fuzz the userspace/kernelspace distinction. What we really want to
> do is freeze things that submit I/O, then sync, then freeze anything
> that processes I/O and needs to be frozen. In effect, redefine fuse
> processes as freezeable kernel threads.

Another myth, that has been debunked already. The problem is: how do
you define fuse processes? There's no theoretical or even practial
way to do that.

Miklos