Re: [PATCH] Add option to fsfreeze to call syncfs() prior to freezing.

Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-08T12:47:43Z

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 12:50:32PM +0000, Alun wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said, in message
> 20121207124415.GA28504@infradead.org:
> >
> > It might be better to send a kernel patch to do a first async sync
> > attempt instead of band aiding this in one of the consumers.
>
> That's what I did originally - see http://marc.info/?t=135474654500003&r=1&w=2

So let's keep the discussion there, if you do exactly the same call from
userspace the same arguments still apply.