On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 07:16:21AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Any objections to something like an ioctl (fd, FIFREEZETHAW, 0) ? > > It's going to be completely trivial, which argues for it. The only > points left woul be bikeshedding over the name, and how to describe > its semantics. FSCHECKPOINT? Since that's your requirement anyway... "Ensures that all filesystem metadata (which may be in a journal somewhere) has been checkpointed back to disk." ? --D > > in the end probably the real fix is probably something like storing > > multiple copies of the bootloader config with checksums that grub > > can verify. Basically teach grub to try really hard to extract known-good > > data from the FS. For file-level consistency that'd be pretty easy, > > we could have e.g. > > The real answer is to have a filesystem that does the above for you > for the boot partition, e.g. one where the kernel and grub have > a common consistency protocol for. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
