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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com, m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Do not allow umounting of frozen filesystems
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:57:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB8F3EC.6050607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090922110737.GL5858@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Al Viro wrote:
...

> IOW, I'd rather add two new ioctls (check if frozen/thaw), both by
> bdev.  On top of the first two patches in this set.

> Comments?

The check ioctls would be very very useful, IMHO.  Many filesystem tools
refuse to operate on a mounted filesystem, but in some cases it'd be
safe to do readonly operations on a frozen, mounted fs.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-22 15:57 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
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 [this message]
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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