On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:12:17PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > I think we need the timeout for the case someone dirties so much data > with mmap, hence the freeze process is swapped out and cannot unfreeze. That is not supposed to happen. That's why write blocks early on a frozen filesystem (the shared mmap write path is currently missing the check, but that's a rather small patch) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html