On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:11:01AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > 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? For that case, yeah. But it's a horrible hack - if that's the best we can come up with for this freeze/unfreeze then we've already lost. 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
