RE: [PATCH v3] Tools: hv: vssdaemon: ignore the EBUSY on multiple freezing the same partition

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel [mailto:driverdev-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dexuan Cui
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 12:52 PM
> To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; driverdev-
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang
> Subject: [PATCH v3] Tools: hv: vssdaemon: ignore the EBUSY on multiple
> freezing the same partition
> 
> If a partition appears mounted more than once in /proc/mounts, vss_do_freeze()
> succeeds only for the first time and gets EBUSY (on freeze) or EINVAL (on
> thaw) for the second time. The patch ignores these to make the backup feature
> work.
> 
> Also improved the error handling in case a freeze operation fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v2: Add "errno = 0;" before the ioctl()
> (Unnecessary and removed now since we remove syslog() in vss_do_freeze() in
> v3)
> 
> v3: Remove the unsafe syslog() in vss_do_freeze(): that could write the disk.
>     Thaw the filesystems in case the freezing operation fails.
>     In main(), add syslog() when we check the return value of vss_operate().
> 
>  tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c | 48

Hi Greg,
Ping.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan
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