On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:13:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > This would mean that freeze and thaw will have to be done on the same > > file descriptor, but this isn't unreasonable to expect, is it? > > It is certainly not the current use case, where you run one command > to freeze the filesystem and another one to unfreeze it. So instead of freeze_fs mountpoint backup-command unfreeze_fs mountpoint the user would have do to run_freezed mountpoint backup-command I find the second one nicer, regardless of any reliability issues. Miklos -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel