Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-08T14:59:31Z

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:26:57AM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> You may as well make the common ioctl the same as the XFS version,
> both by number and parameters, so that applications which already
> understand the XFS ioctl will work on other filesystems.

Yes. In facy you should be able to lift the implementations of
XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW to generic code, there's nothing
XFS-specific in there.