On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:43:05PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:30, David Chinner wrote: > > And how does freezing them at that point in time guarantee consistent > > filesystem state? > > If the work queues are frozen, there won't be any fs-related activity _after_ > we create the suspend image. fs-related activity before or after the suspend image is captured is not a problem - it's fs-related activity _during_ the suspend that is an issue here. If we have async I/O completing during the suspend image capture, we've got problems.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
