On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:07:31PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > I still disagree with this whole patch. There is not reason to let > > the freeze request timeout - an auto-unfreezing will only confuse the > > hell out of the caller. The only reason where the current XFS freeze > > call can hang and this would be theoretically useful is when the > > What happens when someone dirties so much data that vm swaps out > whatever process that frozen the filesystem? a) you can't dirty a frozen filesystem - by definition a frozen filesystem is a *clean filesystem* and *cannot be dirtied*. b) Swap doesn't write through the filesystem c) you can still read from a frozen filesystem to page your executableѕ in. d) if dirtying another unfrozen filesystem swaps out your application so it can't run, then there's a major VM bug. Regardless, until the app completes it is relying on the filesystem being frozen, so it better remain frozen.... > I though that was why the timeout was there... Not that I know of. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
