On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:49:58PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > (e) none of the above. The kernel compilation will appear to pause > until the filesystem is unfrozen. No other visible effect should > occur. It will get blocked in a write or filesystem transaction > because the fs is frozen. So if the process which froze the filesystem accidentally tries writing to a log file (or database file containing the backup information, or whatever) that happens to be on the filesystem that is frozen, that process will get blocked and you end up in a deadlock; did I get that right? - 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
