Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:42:30PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> >I am also wondering whether we should have system call(s) for these:
> >
> >On Jan 25, 2008 12:59 PM, Takashi Sato <t-sato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>+       case EXT3_IOC_FREEZE: {
> >
> >>+       case EXT3_IOC_THAW: {
> >
> >And just convert XFS to use them too?
> 
> I think it is reasonable to implement it as the generic system call, as you
> said.  Does XFS folks think so?

Sure.

Note that we can't immediately remove the XFS ioctls otherwise
we'd break userspace utilities that use them....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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