On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:40:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > on an lvm volume. So, I think ext[34] are perfectly capable of being > frozen, there's just no generic userspace utility to point at a generic > block device to do that freezing. xfs's collection of ioctls to do this > directly got grandfathered in, I guess. :) xfs's collection of ioctls do the right thing if the program which freezes the filesystems exits without unfreezing the filesystem (closing the file descriptor used by the freeze ioctl should unfreeze the filesystem, I hope)? And I assume that if a setuid program which freezes filesystems forgets to catch SIGTSTP, and a hostile user types ^Z at the wrong time, that's considered a buggy setuid program? :-) One of the reasons why direct exposire to the freeze routines was always considered a little dangerous, and my guess is that's why we don't have a first class VFS interface. Then again, XFS managed to get an exemption from some of the standard kernel merging rules, including allowing the IRIX compatibility layer, and I'm guessing the xfs collection of ioctls snuck in that way too. :-) - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
