On 2012-04-16, at 9:13 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > Another potential contention point might be patch 19. In that patch > we make freeze_super() refuse to freeze the filesystem when there > are open but unlinked files which may be impractical in some cases. > The main reason for this is the problem with handling of file deletion > from fput() called with mmap_sem held (e.g. from munmap(2)), and > then there's the fact that we cannot really force such filesystem > into a consistent state... But if people think that freezing with > open but unlinked files should happen, then I have some possible > solutions in mind (maybe as a separate patchset since this is > large enough). Looking at a desktop system, I think it is very typical that there are open-unlinked files present, so I don't know if this is really an acceptable solution. It isn't clear from your comments whether this is a blanket refusal for all open-unlinked files, or only in some particular cases... lsof | grep deleted nautilus 25393 adilger 19r REG 253,0 340 253954 /home/adilger/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home (deleted) nautilus 25393 adilger 20r REG 253,0 32768 253964 /home/adilger/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-f332a8f3.log (deleted) gnome-ter 25623 adilger 22u REG 0,18 17841 2717846 /tmp/vtePIRJCW (deleted) gnome-ter 25623 adilger 23u REG 0,18 5568 2717847 /tmp/vteDCSJCW (deleted) gnome-ter 25623 adilger 29u REG 0,18 480 2728484 /tmp/vte6C1TCW (deleted) Cheers, Andreas -- 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
