On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > The argument against Miklos' version is that there may be multiple > > > commands to execute while the fs is frozen. > > > > Which is what a shell is for ;) > > Yeah, weĺl, with your method I ca't tell a user to: > > # xfs_freeze -f /mntpt > # xfs_db -r -c 'sb 0' -c 'p rootino' /dev/foo > 128 > # xfs_db -r -c 'ino 128' -c 'p core.format' /dev/foo > core.format = 2 (extents) > # xfs_db ..... > ..... > # xfs_freeze -u /mntpt > > i.e. using the freeze to force all metadata to disk and > prevent it from changing while doing interactive debugging > of some problem. # run_freeze /mntpt /bin/bash # ... # ^D It's the same, no? Miklos -- 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
