Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:59:10 CST, Eric Sandeen said: >>> Oh, actually, I'd think not. If the freeze was done properly by the >>> filesystem, all data was flushed, the fs was quiesced, and new IO was >>> blocked. pdflush should never be visiting these... >> >> Yes, but a lot of 'if's - and usually you're reaching for sysrq-S precisely >> *because* you suspect that stuff wasn't happening properly on its own... > > Actually, only one if - if the fs implemented freeze properly. > > Well, the use case I envision here is something like: > > # freeze /my/mount/point/to/fs/to/snapshot > > except oops, that wasn't mounted, and you just froze your root fs. Maybe freeze should protect against that by requiring to specify the exact mountpount, unless you say freeze --subdir? -- 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
