Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature

Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-22T18:17:28Z

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:20:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't think the changelogs actually explained why this feature is
> being added?
>
> Which userspace tools are expected to send these ioctls? Something in
> util-linux? dm-utils? Are patches to those packages planned?

Currently the only surspace using freeze and thaw is xfs_freeze from
xfsprogs, which would work for various other filesystems that implement
->write_super_lockfs now instead of just XFS with patch 1.

The freeze stuff in this third patch isn't and won't be used by
xfs_freeze and doesn't make all that much sense (and we already had a
lot of previous discussion on this..)