Re: [PATCH 3/4] Do not allow umounting of frozen filesystems

From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Date: Tue Sep 22 2009 - 12:45:24 EST


Eric Sandeen ãããæãããã:
Al Viro wrote:
...

IOW, I'd rather add two new ioctls (check if frozen/thaw), both by
bdev. On top of the first two patches in this set.

Comments?

The check ioctls would be very very useful, IMHO. Many filesystem tools
refuse to operate on a mounted filesystem, but in some cases it'd be
safe to do readonly operations on a frozen, mounted fs.

Yep, and HA software would benefit from the check ioctls too.

- Fernando
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