On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:51:49PM +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > > hi, > > > > This patch is necessary to be able to mount snapshots of journalling > > filesystems. It was flying around lvm for long time, years!!. > > And LiNUX distributions bring it, Red Hat at least since 7.x. > > So, it should be sure. > > The patch still doesn't get better by that. And even if it was this > would clearly be a feature for 2.6, not 2.4. > I have not started looking at 2.6 yet, but somehow I assumed it would already have the automatic freeze invocation logic in it. Too bad that it doesn't, but with 2.4 and XFS I initiate the freeze from user space and don't depend on the patch being installed. I assume all of the various filesystems have a way to invoke the freeze from userspace. If so, this patch is a nicety, not a neccesity. Greg -- Greg Freemyer _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
