On Fri 2009-01-16 10:17:09, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > 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? I sometimes hit emergency sync on perfectly healthy system... like before "insmod shiny-new-guaranteed-to-work-module"... I believe sysrq-s should not have sideffects. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
