Re: [PATCH V4] Allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozenfilesystems

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but
> > perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies.
> > 
> > For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your
> > root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted.
> 
> If you don't have console access, you're just logged in remotely, is
> there a way to do an emergency unthaw from a shell command?

echo j > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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