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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com, m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] filesystem freeze: fix sys_umount induced perpetual freeze
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:54:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090827115412.GA8326@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A965BD1.205@oss.ntt.co.jp>

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:11:29PM +0900, Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao wrote:
> Thank you for the pointers. I gave those patches a spin, but it seems
> the umount case is not being tackled. I suggest rejecting the umount
> for frozen filesystems. What do you think?
> 
> I will be replying to this email with a forward port of your patches
> along with my own patches that fix the locking for umount and add a
> new ioctl to check the freeze state of the filesystem (this is helpful
> to create clean resource agents for HA solutions).

I think we should just reject the umount for a forzen filesystem with
-EBUSY like I do for remount in those patches.  I somehow thought I did
this but didn't.  Is that good for your use case?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26  5:00 [RFC, PATCH] filesystem freeze: fix sys_umount induced perpetual freeze Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-08-26 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27 10:11   ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-08-27 11:54     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-08-27 12:16       ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-08-27 14:05     ` [PATCH 1/4] freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-08-27 14:06     ` [PATCH 2/4] freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-08-27 14:06     ` [PATCH 3/4] Do not allow umounting of frozen filesystems Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-09-22 11:07       ` Al Viro
2009-09-22 15:57         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-22 16:46           ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2009-09-22 16:41         ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2009-08-27 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] filesystem freeze: add ISFROZEN ioctl Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao

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