Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature

Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09T08:11:47Z

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > The argument against Miklos' version is that there may be multiple
> > > commands to execute while the fs is frozen.
> >
> > Which is what a shell is for ;)
>
> Yeah, weĺl, with your method I ca't tell a user to:
>
> # xfs_freeze -f /mntpt
> # xfs_db -r -c 'sb 0' -c 'p rootino' /dev/foo
> 128
> # xfs_db -r -c 'ino 128' -c 'p core.format' /dev/foo
> core.format = 2 (extents)
> # xfs_db .....
> .....
> # xfs_freeze -u /mntpt
>
> i.e. using the freeze to force all metadata to disk and
> prevent it from changing while doing interactive debugging
> of some problem.

# run_freeze /mntpt /bin/bash
# ...
# ^D

It's the same, no?

Miklos