On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:48:28 +0100, Pavel Machek said: > Emergency Sync should not do this. Invent another key. > > ...because otherwise, if you hit emergency sync but the system is > still alive and relies on filesystem freezing, bad stuff will happen. Under what conditions would a system be alive and relying on freezing, *and* an emergency thaw would be worse than whatever reason you're doing an emergency sync? Hmm.. guess you *could* get into trouble if you tried to do a Sysrq-[not-s] and hit the wrong key - but you have the same danger if you have *any* sysrq- invoking an emergency_thaw and hit it by accident...
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