Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: Do not sync filesystems from within the freezer

[Miklos Szeredi]

> To get more serious and practical though, I think the solution is to
> fuzz the userspace/kernelspace distinction. What we really want to
> do is freeze things that submit I/O, then sync, then freeze anything
> that processes I/O and needs to be frozen. In effect, redefine fuse
> processes as freezeable kernel threads.

Another myth, that has been debunked already.  The problem is: how do
you define fuse processes?  There's no theoretical or even practial
way to do that.

Miklos
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