On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:48:29AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: > > The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but > > perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies. > > > > For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your > > root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted. > > If you don't have console access, you're just logged in remotely, is > there a way to do an emergency unthaw from a shell command? ^^^^^^ That's a freeze, right? ;) Anyway, I think you could use /proc/sysrq-trigger in that situation. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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