On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Eric, > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:16:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> The xfs_metadump manpage states that metadump works >> on a frozen filesystem; it does not. In fact, there is >> no way to detect a frozen filesystem, so we can't make it >> work, either. >> >> So just remove this from the manpage; unmounted or RO >> mounted is what is enforced by xfs_metadump. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I gave this a try and it *seemed* to work fine on a frozen filesystem. > Can you provide a bit of detail about why xfs_metadump doesn't work on > frozen filesystems? What am I missing? > Hum, when I tried it it didn't work. I can retest, but AFAIK there is no way to detect a frozen fs in the first place, so how could it work? -Eric > Thanks, > Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
