On Tue 29-11-11 13:18:11, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:09:13PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hmm, then why do these operations suspend the filesystem if they > > apparently don't need it? Sorry for my ignorance, I never seriously worked > > with LVM code... > > They don't suspend it if they don't need to. > > dm-ioctl.h: > /* > * Set this to avoid attempting to freeze any filesystem when suspending. > */ > #define DM_SKIP_LOCKFS_FLAG (1 << 10) /* In */ Thanks. I was now checking in detail and indeed FIFREEZE fails if ->freeze_fs is not set. And only xfs, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, jfs, nilfs2, and gfs2 provide this function. So I was correct in assuming that when filesystem supports FIFREEZE it must make sure no modifications happen to the filesystem. So I believe that my original plan for sync to skip frozen filesystem is correct. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
