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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Implement generic freeze feature
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:57:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520035712.GA7252@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514170625t-sato@mail.jp.nec.com>

On May 14, 2008  17:06 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> +static int ioctl_freeze(struct file *filp)
> +{
> +	struct super_block *sb = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb;
> +
> +	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +		return -EPERM;
> +
> +	/* If filesystem doesn't support freeze feature, return. */
> +	if (sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs == NULL)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Should this be EINVAL, or EOPNOTSUPP?  Usually EINVAL means there is
something wrong with the passed ioctl parameters (e.g. bad value),
while EOPNOTSUPP is "operation not supported" and makes more sense.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-14  8:06 [RFC PATCH 1/3] Implement generic freeze feature Takashi Sato
2008-05-20  3:57 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-05-21  1:23   ` Takashi Sato
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-22  8:50 Takashi Sato
2008-05-25 19:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-27 10:20   ` Takashi Sato
2008-04-28 10:31 Takashi Sato
2008-04-28 10:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28 12:59   ` Takashi Sato
2008-04-28 13:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-30  1:10       ` Takashi Sato
2008-04-01 12:17 Takashi Sato

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