On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:42:55AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > The problem wth doing this is that the sync can delay the freeze > process by quite some time under the exact conditions you describe. > If you want freeze to take effect immediately (i.e instantly stop > new modifications), then adding a sync will break this semantic. > THere are existing users of freeze that require this behaviour... But that's only because he uses the big hammer sync_filesystem() which actually waits for I/O completion. I agree that this is a bad idea, but if we'd just do a writeback_inodes_sb() call in this place that starts asynchronous writeout I think everyone would benefit. -- 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
