On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:53:37PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > The timeout feature is added to "freeze ioctl" to solve a deadlock > when the freezer accesses a frozen filesystem. And new ioctl > to reset the timeout period is added to extend the timeout period. > For example, the freezer resets the timeout period to 10 seconds every 5 > seconds. In this approach, even if the freezer causes a deadlock by > accessing the frozen filesystem, it will be solved by the timeout > in 10 seconds and the freezer will be able to recognize that > at the next reset of timeout period. And as with all previous posting I still fundamentally disagree about the need of this functionality. We don't need a timeout for freezing. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
