Re: Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?

From: Damien Miller (djm@mindrot.org)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 01:12:58 EST

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 tytso@MIT.EDU wrote:

> Nope, it never did that.
>
> You could potentially do something like that, but it would mean that
> whenever you tried to write to the filesystem (including inode atime
> updates), all modifications would have to stall until the EXT2_VALID_FS
> bit was cleared. It's doable, but it's not clear it's worth it.

How about marking EXT2_VALID_FS prior to suspend or HD spindown?

-d

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