Re: [xfs-masters] Re: freeze vs freezer

From: Elias Oltmanns
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 17:55:23 EST


Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:05:29PM +0200, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
>> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > Do all of the filesystems implement the freezing?
>>
>> There is some work in progress [1].
> [....]
>> [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/24716
>
> No, that's the userspace ioctl interface to enable freezing from
> something other than dm-snapshot. The filesystems that is aimed at
> already support freezing via freeze_bdev().

Yes, Christoph mentioned that too and I should have realised it had I
looked at those patches properly.

Regards,

Elias
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