Re: [PATCH] fs: export emergency_sync

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 11:31:49PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 07:53:32AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On vacation until next. Please add a proper rationale why and who this
> > export is needed by in the commit message. As right now it looks like
> > someone thought it would be good to have which is not enough for
> > something to become an export.
> 
> emergency_sync is a relaly bad idea and has all kinds of issues.
> It should go away and not grow more users outside of core code,
> and the one Guenther points to should never have been added.
> 
> If we want to allow emergency shutdowns it needs a proper interface
> and not a remount read-only ignoring some rules that tends to make
> things worse and instad of better, and even for that I'm not sure
> I want modules to be able to drive it.

I am not sure why you would not want modules to use it - in the case we
have here we detect a catastrophic failure in a critical system
component (embedded controller crashed) and would like to have as much
of the logs saved as possible. It is a module because this kind of EC
may not be present on every system, but when it is present it is very
much a core component.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry